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Word: calls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Rene Peroy's first call to arms early this week was answered by 19 men, who have been practicing in the Fencing Room of the Indoor Athletic Building. The schedule includes Brown, Seton Hall, Bowdoin, Columbia, Army, and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FENCERS PRACTICE | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

Bill Coleman continues to operate at the quarterback post, and Joe Gardella rates the opening call over Fran Lee at wingback. This switch does not mean that Spreyer will not spend a lot of time at tailback tomorrow, because he will move over there from his present bucking job as soon as Macdonald needs relief...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Macdonald Set to Start at Tailback; Spreyer to Open in Bucking Position | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

Twenty-five Varsity swimmers answered the call to the first official practice in the pool as Coach Hal Ulen brought his series of conditioning exercises to a close and started work for the 1939-40 swimming season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Ulen Opens Practice With 25 Tankmen on Squad | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

...have a stupid, vain jackass who can give the Reds a juicy answer . . . than a dozen learned professors sitting trembling on the wet trouser leg of facts. . . . Oh-and he must be a bachelor. Then we shall get the women. . . ." They study the man at the other table, then call out to him: "HITLER! HITLER! . . ." Such was the opening this week of a new propaganda serial staged by British Broadcasting Corp. Its name: The Shadow of the Swastika. Its story: the careers of the Nazi bully boys from beer hall to the rape of Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hostilities | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...last week Franklin Roosevelt, brooding over his bed-breakfast, decided to resurrect a long-laid ghost-that of the "White House spokesman." Unghostly, cherry-cheeked Secretary Steve Early got the call. Spokesmanlike, he asked the U. S. Press to consider the "timing" of Russian Premier Molotov's blast at U. S. foreign policy-on the day of a crucial House vote on the 1939 Neutrality Act. Later that day the White House released without comment past correspondence between President Roosevelt and U. S. S. R. President Kalinin, in which Mr. Kalinin thanked Mr. Roosevelt for a non-aggression proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Manners | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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