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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were an ounce of superstition in any one of the men prominently mentioned for the captaincy, the honor of leading a Harvard football team would be shunned. Four Junior lettermen, Bill Brown, Joe Gardella, Gene Lovett, and Don Lowry, are leading candidates from their class. Burgy Ayres, Chub Peabody, and Charley Spreyer are the chief Sophomore nominees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERMEN ASSEMBLE TO PICK NEW CAPTAIN | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

...native inhabitants as Indonesia, called by old mariners simply The Indies. These islands, home of orangutans, Komodo dragons, hornbills and headhunters, producer of pearls, spices, rare woods, stretches 1,300 miles from North to South, 3,000 from East to West and are inhabited by 60,000,000 brown-bodied souls, not counting some 1,500,000 Asiatics and Europeans. Queen Wilhelmina has never visited her Eastern Empire (although one of New Guinea's highest peaks is named for her), but she can hardly fail to appreciate what a windfall came to her little country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, a bright, brown-eyed Michigan lad with good schooling and a job, seemed headed in the right direction. Then, one night in 1933, he went dead wrong. With his big brother and two other fellows, he kidnapped and robbed a Detroit man named Joseph Nesbitt, watched one of the gang shoot the victim and leave him to die by the roadside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

STATESMEN OF THE LOST CAUSE-Burton J. Hendrick-Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queer Cabinet | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Harvard's outlook is far from dismal. Having lost only two early season games in what was decidedly a tough schedule, the Yardlings really hit their stride last Saturday in a 3 to 1 win over Brown. Then to top that off, they beat the Varsity 5 to 3 in their last scrimmage. The only disheartening feature is the fact that Jack Calhoun, the captain, and Bill Mayer are both troubled with leg injuries which may curtail their playing efficiency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powerful '43 Soccer Team to Fight Yale Freshmen Today | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

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