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Word: facings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local liability, clownish three-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who in an attempted comeback at 70, complete with sombrero, coonskin coat, open Cadillac but with no new tricks, polled only 62,000 votes. The rest of the Republican vote went to establish a fresher, more attractive party face, that of Lawyer Dwight Herbert ("Pete") Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Windy Primary | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...nightmare to peace-loving Britons and Frenchmen is the vision of thousands of Nazi bombers thundering over London and Paris in wave after wave, blasting their populations to smithereens. Last September, in face of this horror, the fate of Czecho-Slovakia hardly seemed worth bothering about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Terror | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

With a promise of the best season in many years, the fencing team journeyed to New York last night to face a powerful Columbia squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FENCERS FACE COLUMBIA | 3/11/1939 | See Source »

Yardlings Face Blue Cubs Here...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: HOOPSTERS EXPECT TOUGH ELI CONTEST | 3/11/1939 | See Source »

Although the Teachers' Union Report cannot be regarded as a divinely inspired panacea, at least two of its suggestions--fixed security of tenure for younger instructors and increased competition in the upper ranks--will go far toward alleviating many problems that now face the profession. In addition to decreasing inter-faculty friction, these proposals will contribute to the improvement of the quality both of Harvard's teaching and of its research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECURITY AND COMPETITION | 3/9/1939 | See Source »

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