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Word: dewing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circulation, it had passed the Constitution (91,007), was Atlanta's biggest newspaper. It ranked third in the South, after the Memphis Commercial Appeal (124,010) and the New Orleans Times-Picayune (109,825), almost lived up to its slogan: "The Journal Covers Dixie Like the Dew." Atlanta newsmen used to wisecrack: "Yeah, it's all wet!" For the Journal had grown fat and stodgy; its editorial stand was typified by an annual piece called March Comes in A-Blowin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Deal in Georgia | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Given $100 with which to increase the library in the University infirmary the committee, headed by Hobbing, will work with Keyes DeW. Metcalf, director of the University Libraries, in making its purchases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK COMMITTEE NAMED | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

Tracing the rivalry with Yale since its official beginning in 1876, the football exhibit outside the reading room in Widener is drawing unusual attention, according to Keyes DeW. Metcalf, director of the University Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Exhibit in Widener Shows Souvenirs Of 63 Years' Rivalry Between Harvard and Yale | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...King Pellinore (3.2 Don Quixote) and Sir Grummore Grummursum (Sancho Panza on rye). Meanwhile her neglected sons Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris and Gareth confound their Saracen tutor Palomides, who talks rather like Charlie Chan, and beg stories from heretic St. Torealvac (parody brogue), who inhabits a beehive and drinks mountain dew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arthurian Cocktail | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Still the Isolationists struggled on, insisting on the closest inspection of the gift horses' teeth. For four and a half hours West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt bellowed opposition, drawing breath only to mimic stridently Franklin Roosevelt's Groton-Harvard accent and inflection. North Carolina's Reynolds charged that Stalin sank the Athenia. But only the stubbornest Senate orator could ignore the fact that the galleries lay almost empty day after day. Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee. This week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Gift Horses | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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