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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes to all Navy men at 64, often as cruelly and as indiscriminately as Death, retirement last week beached the old Admiral. Hobbyless, Harry Yarnell settled down to read books on the Orient, twiddle his brown thumbs, watch the sailboats off Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Beached | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Harvard 7Army 6 Yale 14 Brown 10 Princeton 13 Dartmouth 7 Tulane 13 Alabama 0 Holy Cross 14 Temple 0 Boston College 12 Detroit 7 Cincinnati 14 Boston University 6 Cornell 14 Colgate 0 Tennessee 33 Citadel 0 Northwestern 13 Purdue 7 Carnegie Tech 7 Pittsburgh 0 Minnesota 14 Michigan 13 Ohio State 51 Chicago 0 U.S.C. 14 Stanford 0 Texas Aggies 14 South'n M'th'dist 10 Illinois 7 Wisconsin 0 Pennsylvania 20 Penn State 0 North Carolina 26 Davidson 7 Notre Dame 14 Iowa 13 Kontucky 14 Georgla Tech 7 Missouri 19 N.Y.U. 7 Navy 6 Columbia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Scores | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...mentioning the performance itself, of course, remarks might be passed on about the remarkable costuming, about the Savannah heat-wave, Rose Brown, whose Kaisha was vaguely reminiscent of Josephine Baker, but it's all quite futile. The show belongs to the great Bojangles. The rest of the cast can only be thankful that they have a chance to do something in the first act, for when Robinson comes on in the second, he takes over and all the rest of the cast can do is sit back and shrug. It would be nice to bounce one's grand-children...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

After Springfield come Brown and Yale on successive week ends. The Eli record is also unblemished except for a 3 to 3 tie with Amherst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D' Autremont, Penson Star as Crimson Booters Lose to Undefeated Princeton | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...that of Degas. The woman who represents the butterfly is clad in a billowy, wing-like costume, the decorative pattern of which is formed by means of juxtaposing solid, intense tones. Her figure is graceful and seems to be in the process of competing a turn, while the warm, brown color of her skin contributes a feeling of placid sobriety to the moving nature of the entire piece...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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