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Word: catchings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposedly sophisticated love-making: "Your feet are too big." The chief character turns out to be a cheat; he's not a gangster, but merely a charming fellow escaping from a subpoena as witness in a divorce. The climax of the plot is indicated by the fact that you catch on to this long before it's revealed, but this does not make the preliminary scene that fools you any less deceitful. Ann Sothern (the escaping heiress) is nice enough, we suppose, and so is Don Ameche, but the only really worthwhile acting is in the bit parts. And even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

Taking on the Tufts Junior Varsity in a game on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock this afternoon, the Crimson Jayvees will seek to keep up the heavy hitting which helped them to defeat Governor Dummer Academy last Saturday. Ellie Bacon will catch Lefty Edinburg's slants for the home team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN BALL TEAM PLAYS ST. MARK'S TODAY | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

...effects of yogic practices, which he continued as much for self as for Science. Before he took up yoga he suffered frequent headaches, lacked vigor. Now: "No work, physical or mental, could tire me so rapidly as it did before. . . . My mental-emotional life is no longer a blind catch-as-catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yale's Yogin | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...great day for Harvard rowing. It is hard to trace the reasons for the victory. The bladework of both boats was good, their weights nearly the same. The Princeton boat with its longer layback, its harder catch, seemed to dip just a trifle. Like good Washington crews of the old Bolles Harvard started easily, finished smoothly with plenty of power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Varsity and Jayvee Crews Defeat Princeton in Compton Race | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Missed train connections to Cornell almost deprived the Varsity baseball team of its regular third baseman last Saturday. Frank Owens rushed to the South Station Friday night to catch the Midnight to Syracuse, only to find that the rest of the ball team had left an hour earlier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY NINE NEARLY LOSES THIRD BASEMAN SATURDAY | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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