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Word: counts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...removed anyway. When the matter was put to a vote, the House amazingly and resoundingly approved Mr. McCormack's amendment-to empty the third basket by striking it out of the bill -by a vote of 165 to 126. Disconcerted, Mr. Doughton asked for a teller count. This time, as more members appeared from the coat rooms, the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Empty Basket | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...According to one German count, King Augustus, who died in 1733, begot of 700 mistresses 354 children, many of them highly prolific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: $7,500,000 for 4,300 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...teams went into the last chukker the visitors led 8 to 5. After pulling up to an 8 to 8 deadlock, the Crimson slipped behind on Riggs' fore hander, but Forbes tied the count again with Ven Stade tallying the final goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLOISTS TRIP TIGERS 10-9 IN SPEEDY CLASH | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Spring Thaw" was written for Roland, and his peculiar talents are catered to throughout. All that was necessary was to put the most obvious analysis of every situation into the tersest from and the simplest language, and to count on Mr. Young to do the rest. For example, when it is offered as an excuse to invite the doctor to dinner that he is still there, Roland drily explains that he won't be if he leaves. Some of the humor is indeed more complex than this sample. Some of it is even vaguely satirical. But none...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

There is, naturally enough, a comic-strip incompetent artist, the variant of the impoverished count, who serves as the specious attraction for the foolish young woman who misses the sublety of her husband's quiet charm. This one can't even elope with the wife on the husband's money, because he doesn't know how to open his new billfold. He is ably played by Guido Nadzo, and the foolish young thing by Lillian Emerson. But whenever Mr. Young is off the stage, the audience is manifestly waiting for him to come back...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

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