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Word: breast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indication of the true import of this bill is its parturition in the patriotic breast of Senator McNaboe, whose record includes vigorous support of the New York Teachers' Oath Law and an oft repeated demand for an investigation of subversive activities on the Cornell campus. It is discouraging that a legislature which has just enacted a constructive program of social reform should have taken so seriously the emotional fulminations of Senator McNaboe, that it passed a bill which would bar from teaching posts some idealistic parlor pinks whose sole crime is the possession of a confused and incoherent social consciousness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DORGAN VISITS ALBANY | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...more are going to dislike the new Robert Taylor. He is a big, virile fellow--courtesy of M. G. M.--with incredible athletic prowess, a fine disdain for the weaker sex. He carries his beauty with boyish modesty. And just to rouse the dormant nationalism in the breast of every true American, he has gone to England--courtesy of M. G. M.--and taken it by storm. "A Yank at Oxford," now at Loew's, is a domestic flop which promises to become an international incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/19/1938 | See Source »

With Greenhood, Endweiss, Danforth, Cranston, and Gibson in the dive, the spring-board event will offer the stiffest competition of the entire meet. Next closest will probably be the 220 breast-stroke, with Berizzl, Callahan, Hough, White, and Soltysiak all within five seconds on their best times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eastern Swim Stars Will Compete for Intercollegiate Pool Titles at Harvard | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

...Brueckel (Y) 5 4 50 free-style: Hutter (H) Perryman (Y) Barker (H) 6 3 Dive: Greenhood (H) Endweiss (Y) Danforth (Y) 5 4 100 free-style: Hutter (H) Curwen (H) Good (Y) 8 1 150 backstroke: Cummin (H) Burns (Y) J. Brueckel (Y) 5 4 200 breast stroke: Berizzi (H) Macionis (Y) Munroe (H) 6 3 440 free-style: Coleman (H) P. Brueckel (Y) Spendelow (Y) 5 4 400 free-style relay: Harvard (McKay, Griffin, Stowell, Kendall) 7 0 Total Score: 52 23 (First place, 5; second 3; third, 1. 5 points for medley; 7 points for free relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREDICITON OF SCORING | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...most likely of these alternatives is the change in the medley lineup. The breast and backstroke events, other things being equal, will go to Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BENGALS OFFER FIRST THREAT TO SWIMMERS | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

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