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Word: bulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aides of John L. Lewis pulled down the sign and erased the lettering. At 9:50 a.m. John Lewis arrived, bull shoulders hunched, and clumped inside. There he fixed waiting newsmen with his scowl. Would Mr. Lewis discuss his promise to resign as C. I. 0. head if Roosevelt were reelected? Labor's most enigmatic leader good-naturedly brushed the question aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Well, John? | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...Professor" Lewis leased a house in Madison until July, settled down to teach creative writing to 28 enthusiastic undergraduates. They soon pronounced him a "right guy." He lectured to his class at top speed, carried on bull sessions in his study far into the night. He told his students: "If you really want to write, to be something, to aim as high as Shakespeare, you'll find English courses absolutely useless." He dropped a student from his class because "She's too young." To the rest he suggested plots, explained tricks of his trade, read and criticized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Professor Lewis | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...which would require analysis of source material. At present some tutors demand b1-weekly essays while others see their tutees no more often than twice a term. It is still possible to spend four years here without writing a single paper, whether for tutorial or for courses, and to bull through the blue books on hot air and a good vocabulary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRITERS CHAMPED | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...those of past political campaigns. Even the missiles flung at Republican Candidate Willkie gave the 1940 campaign little dirty distinction. A man with a gun was arrested when Willkie spoke at Madison Square Garden, but unlike Roosevelt I, who got a bullet in his chest in Milwaukee during his Bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Lies, Curses and Bastardies | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Hall's Boat: Norm Bacon, George Nichols, Bull Reece, Tony Villo, Al Anderson, Bill Shaw, Morris Gray, and Jim Ducey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crews Ring Down Curtain on Rowing Season | 11/7/1940 | See Source »

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