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Word: comely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent torrent of discussion and disagreement about future foreign policy has come increasing evidence of the existence of two rather clear-cut conceptions of what course it is most in the interest of the United States to pursue. One course is approved on the whole by the majority of Congressmen coming from west of the Mississippi. The other course has, with exceptions, its most vociferous supporters east of that river. Presumably both groups represent the feelings of their voters. And the division of national opinion rests on different interpretations of present world events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAST IS EAST AND . . . | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

Most of the diseases come not from poor health but from the nervous strain of modern living, he remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Illnesses in Student Body, Statistics of Dr. Bock Indicate | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

Many students nowadays come from unsettled homes where the future is problematic and the constant worrying about the next day gets on their nerves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Illnesses in Student Body, Statistics of Dr. Bock Indicate | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

Because the state has adopted biennial sessions for the Legislature the drive to remove the oath law from the books will not come up again until 1941. Informed circles at the State House said that had the Governor been pressed for a statement on Thursday the measure might have gone through, but that it had little chance of passage after today's roll call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OATH REPEAL BILL LOSES BY 3 VOTES | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

Sergeant A. L. Dynam who was in charge said, "There are plenty of no-parking signs along the street. Any-how the cars were parked too far away from the curb and Quincy, St. must remain open for the fire engines to come through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE REMOVE 4 CARS FROM QUINCY ST. PARKING BERTHS | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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