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Word: comely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three games now Harvard has come out at the beginning of the second half in none too certain fashion. In fact the first couple of minutes of the third periods have been rather gruesome thus far. Perhaps today will gnaw more oranges and munch more lumps of sugar in the mid-game respite...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: THE LINEUPS | 10/29/1938 | See Source »

With alumni placement "satisfactorily high" and enrollment equaling the highest mark yet reached in the history of the graduate center, the Business School swings into another year as the training ground for financial wizards to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School's Enrollment Jumps To Equal Highest Mark Yet Recorded | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

Gardella will start against Princeton at fullback, says Harlow, but if Torbert Macdonald needs relief he will switch to wing and Ben Smith will come in at fullback. Last week Macdonald went for the full 60 minutes; perhaps he can do it again. At any rate Burnett will be held out only a week with his leg injury...

Author: By Rockwell Hollands, | Title: Leg Injury Benches Bob Burnett For Princeton Game on Saturday | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...regularly, thereby shattering the usual official complacency at Harvard's never center. How the horse gets in is a problem which has not been solved, even by the vigilance of Mr. Apted's stalwarts. Some days it just appears, that's all. And nobody knows when it will come again--or why. But officers of the University inside know their Trojan history, and they do not like the beast at all. It seems docile enough, never blocking Yard traffic, and invariably vanishes when closely approached or frightened. Nevertheless, all who have seen it agree that it has an ominous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRONTS OF UNIVERSITY WARFARE: WOODEN HORSE | 10/25/1938 | See Source »

...Lincoln in Illinois is a frequently inexpert play, slow in getting started, discontinuous in structure, too literary in some of its writing, too emotional in some of its appeal. But it is also a fervent play, burning fiercely with the spirit of what Lincoln, rightly or wrongly, has come to stand for in the hearts of his countrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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