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Word: couldn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nominee was being driven away, a liquor bottle crashed against the stadium wall, showered the running board of his car with splinters of glass. "I just couldn't resist the impulse," confessed 16-year-old John Dobbins to police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Last Lap | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...four days hard-looking Film Director Wesley Ruggles, brother of Cinemactor Charles Ruggles, vainly searched Chicago for a "mug," concluded: "I prowled the stockyards . . . paced through Cicero where some of the gangland mugs used to live, but I couldn't find a single mug that looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...become. The new spirit was shown again in the trench warfare which marked the third period. Time after time Princeton reached Harvard's three--yard line, only to be pushed back onto less dangerous ground. From such skirmishes it was unreasonable to expect perpetual success. The defense couldn't work every time, and Harvard proved to be the pitcher that went to the well too often, as Princeton made its second touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TURNING OF THE TIDE | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

There are more grounds for believing an upset possible than the 32-0 Army stamped might seem to warrant. Witnesses of the Crimson eleven clicking off plays in practice sessions prier to that game can't help but feel that the Harlow trained boys have a punch they couldn't uncock against Army. Whether it was the rain, or just a bad case of stage fright doesn't matter now-there is very little use in crying over the 32 points cropped by the Army mule from Cambridge turf last Saturday. The important question is whether or not this latent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth's in Town Again With Strong Squad, But Crimson Is Primed for Upset | 10/24/1936 | See Source »

...signatures were not compulsory, no cut and dried figures are available for comparison, but a rough estimate showed that the barbers, the largest single trade in the Square, were as divided about, political candidates as they are about long and short haircuts--they just couldn't make up their minds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biddies Back Roosevelt in His Upset Victory Over Alf Landon in New Poll | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

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