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Word: finn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared with the tough kids of contemporary fiction, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were cherubs. But the contrast is more apparent than real; portrayed with James Farrell's pimpled candor, Huck Finn would undoubtedly be just as taboo for adolescent libraries as Studs Lonigan. Well aware of this fact are grownups who grew up in Midwest small towns. But few of them have admitted as much in print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scatterfield Gang | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...initiative behind the program came from a committee of Claverly Sophomores headed by William B. Schallek, and including John Finn, Herbert Ritter, Kwyn Abrahams, and Paul Woodman, Thirty men are expected to report for practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLAVERLY QUINTET TO OPPOSE HOUSES | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

Serving on the committee are Bolton and Charles L. Burwell '39 from the Council, Richard Finn '39, Homer D. Peabody '41, Spencer Klaw '41, Leo Marx '41, and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., '41. Finn was chairman of an H. S. U. committee which studied the problem last year, and the four Sophomores served on last spring's Yardling body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOLTON HEADS GROUP STUDYING HOUSE PLAN | 12/7/1938 | See Source »

...basketball team for men living in dormitories has just been organized through the action of a Student Union committee headed by R.B. Finn '39, of Lowell House. The first practice will be in the Indoor Athletic Building at 2 o'clock on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DORM-MEN ORGANIZE SQUAD | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

John F. Ambrose '41, Nathan Belfer '41, Phillip J. Blumberg '39, Robert M. Boyd '41, Milton P. Brown '40, Edward L. Burwell '41, Lawrence a. Campbell '39, John L. Chase '39, William N. Dale '40, Alfred Eisner '39, John J. Fernsler '40, Richard B. Finn '39, Edward A. Fox '41, Luke M. Gibson ocC, David R. V. Golding '41, Roland Kahn '41, William P. Keats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 206 SCHOLARSHIPS ARE ANNOUNCED BY THE CORPORATION | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

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