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Word: bunched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worried about, however, the Crimson tankmen must consider the strong challenge Brown will make tomorrow evening to upset the Uien applecart. The Bruin swim team apparently has some of the glant-killing tendencles of its football men and will be correspondingly hard to beat. But Captain Rusty Greenhood's bunch is determined that the finish of tomorrow's meet will find Coach Ulen smlling. If a Harvard team has to have a 28-meet string broken, it's certain that either Yale or Princeton will be slightly more welcome as breakers than upstart Brown. A consoling thought for Coach...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

Reeking with sentiment and no-good corpses, Zane Grey's 36th novel, Knights of the Range (Harper, $2), tells how beautiful 20-year-old Holly Ripple took over her father's New Mexico cattle empire, reformed a tough bunch of desperadoes, who killed off every rustler in sight. Zane Grey at his best, it is a reminder that probably no other U. S. writer is treated with such indulgence year after year. Zane Grey readers may grow up, but they seldom get away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fighting Fiction | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Part ancient Irish saga, part blarney, Sons of the Swordmaker, by Maurice Walsh (Stokes, $2.50), concerns the five sons of Orugh the Swordmaker. They are an accomplished bunch. Delgaun lops the head off of fabled Fergus the Killer, wins an enigmatic redhead named Alor. Flann One-Hand wanders over Ireland itself, gets mixed up with Fer Rogain, Conaire the King, cools a rustic spitfire named Dairne. Most adventurous part of the tale is the oldtime Gaelic talk: Says Delgaun of Alor: "She has red hair and she stays in a man's mind. Brief enough, but enough. She draws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fighting Fiction | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Highest pacing up and down and throwing off such amazing indiscretions as: "There's a man alone, without family, without children, without God. Why should he be human? . . . He has got rid of, or even killed . . . Papen, Schleicher, Neurath-and even Blomberg. He has nothing left but a bunch of shirted gangsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Something of a Dilettante | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Voilà, a Paris weekly that specializes in nude pictures and pornographic reporting. Mr. Gingrich said he could not get permission to print the real name of Author "Burckhardt," who was reported by Ken's Paris agents to be "something of a dilettante who hobnobs with the royal bunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Something of a Dilettante | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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