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Word: dark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thrice the board balloted on seventh-grade history. Then into the lobby where waited some 75 agents strode dark, rawboned President Sanderford and blond State School Superintendent L. A. Woods. Superintendent Woods began to make a speech. "Read us the adoptions," grimly cried the bookmen. Slowly the superintendent read them off. For seventh-grade history pupils: Row, Peterson's Building Our Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Textbooks | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...into a series of secret passageways. He emerges from these to confront an antique statue, glitteringly gilded; the statue falls, bursts open, revealing a cache of medieval manuscripts. At last, from an atmosphere grown dreamlike in its portentous illogicality, he walks out into the moonlit garden, sees a dark half-familiar figure passing across the lawn-God. The meeting is surprisingly casual, perhaps one of the least apocalyptic of such encounters in literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modernist Miracle | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Photography Club is a new organization for Freshmen, having become active only last February when a dark-room, the cost of which was defrayed by the Union and the College, was established in the basement of the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chassin Elected President Of '41 Photographic Club | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

...best practices in point of view of drive and spark that has been seen all season. The A and B teams were driving through the C team in a protracted scrimmage with a ruthless abandon that left the subs gasping for air and pawing in the dark. The scrimmage was all from the 20-yard line, and no adding machine was present to keep the list of the scores...

Author: By John J. Reidy jr., | Title: HARLOW'S TEAM SHINES IN DEFENSE TACTICS AS STREET LIGHTS GLEAM | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

...other words this is the year that Harvard must get its wins because after this year the going looks awfully dark. On the first team there are four juniors and a sophomore. On the second team backfield there is one junior and the rest seniors...

Author: By John J. Reidy jr., | Title: Seniors Compose Most of Football Outfit This Year | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

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