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Word: downs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Every so often, the officers neglect to enforce the law prohibiting parking after 2 o'clock in the morning, and it is necessary to have them clamp down on the boys," the Cambridge police chief added.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chief Leahy Starts Campaign Against Overnight Parking | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

The band prefers one sort of rhythm--a style of jump that starts very softly and lightly and ends by tearing the all gently down. Fats himself plays fine rhythm and occasionally takes off on solo flights that are just as good as anything he has ever done. Plus the...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

The article follows the lines of his latest book, "Twilight of Mankind," which sets forth his thesis that man is declining. While writing for the Associated Press, Professor Hooton made the statement, "The masters of our destiny are too wise to conduct a war on the lines I have laid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Plans War to Benefit Mankind Which Would Be Fought by Misfits | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

Clare Booth's little hymn of hate about the magazine-movie game has the same politely barbaric wise-cracking of her first play, "The Women." But it has an element which "The Women" didn't have,--a well constructed plot that swings the audience along from crack to crack without...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/18/1939 | See Source »

LONDON--A squadron of German planes bombed British warships in the Firth of Forth at Edinburgh today, wounding 35 sailors and slightly damaging the cruiser Southampton before they were beaten off with at least four of the Nazi bombers shot down along the Scottish coast.

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

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