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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed surprisingly unsubtle. In the House of Commons Sir Neville Chamberlain said he did not "propose to waste time by commenting at length." That the speech was unsubtle at least in its efforts to pry France from England was proved by the Paris reaction-gay ridicule. Italians were a bit hurt by the fact that over the radio they heard no sound when Ribbentrop praised Italy but a huge cheer when Russia was mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Full Force | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...line for a Red shirt soon, because right now he stacks up as the best passer on the squad. The 180 pound Junior may develop into a good backfield prospect if he can improve in the other departments of his play. Another aerial possibility. Bob James, is a bit too slow for the tailback role...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Varsity Backfield Revamped as Spreyer Is Sent to Tailback Job | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...TIME for Oct. 9, your interesting account of submarine warfare leaves me a bit puzzled. As a civilian ... I have held for some time the belief that submarines are able to stay submerged only so long as they maintain active forward motion with motors running. And yet . . . you state that the "usual maneuver is to sit on bottom, motors off." By this do you mean that such submarines are stuck fast in the mud of the bottom or that submersion with motors off is possible regardless of the circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

They found still on the campus "the Colonel" (Horace M. Poynter), oldtime Latin teacher, and "Georgie" (George Walker Hinman), a Greek and Latin tutor who once bit a pencil in two when a pupil failed to conjugate amare. Missing was "Zeus" (Allen Rogers Brenner), famed old Greek teacher, many another familiar face. The old boys found other changes. In ten years a revolution had taken place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Andover | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Those of you liking good jazz are due for a bit of fun in the next few weeks. So much is drifting in for the various House dances, balls, and Fall proms that this reviewer's arches ache at the thought. Our pen Horace wants to know just how in the blue blazes we are going to be three places at once tonight; but somehow it's going to have to be done. Van Alexander is at the Adams House dance, Bob Crosby at the Harvard-Dartmouth Ballroom at the Somerset, and Bunny Berigan is at the Southland--each...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

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