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Word: fitfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writing in the Harvard CRIMSON, Professor Zechariah Chafee, Jr., getting his background on the race-track situation here from the Boston newspapers, has written a series of articles, parts of which Mr. O'Hara has seen fit to use in his newspaper in defense of himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quinn Declares O'Hara No Harvard Man; Chafee Explains Own Position | 11/3/1937 | See Source »

...title role, and in demonstrating his perfection is at one point required to take most of his clothes off.* In this picture he labors under the screen name of Gerald Beresford Wicks, who has been schooled in all the arts and sciences by a bossy grandmother (May Robson), to fit him for the Wicks fame & fortune. His planned life gets out of hand when Mona Carter (Joan Blondell) crashes her car through the Wickstead fence, discovers the perfect specimen testing a Newtonian theory by falling out of a tree. With very little urging, Gerald reacts like a perfectly normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...America quarterback. Somewhere in his career a particularly idiotic sportswriter named him "Slingin' Sam" because he threw a football as easily and as accurately as a baseballer throws a baseball. Slingin' Sam's nickname has this year been a double asset. Not only does it fit snugly into headlines, but sports-reading opponents, who always expect a pass whenever Sam Baugh has the ball, are disconcerted to find that Sam Baugh is as capable a runner and kicker as he is a passer. In the six games so far this season 53 of Sam Baugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heroes for Pay | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...system, or the lack of system, now in force permits the professor to make up his own reading list, take as long as he wants in doing so, and finally, to report his selections, verbally or in writing to such book stores as he sees fit. This is not all. Constant pressure on the members of the Faculty over a period of years has resulted in a large number of them either giving their lists exclusively to the Harvard Cooperative Society or sending that firm advance notice of the books to be used in their courses. By this means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SQUARE BOOK MARKET | 10/28/1937 | See Source »

...Fit for a King (RKO-Radio) places Joe E. Brown, his great mouth and banshee yawp in the newspaper business, to the patent disadvantage of all concerned. In the course of his six-reel career he frustrates craven intrigues in a turbulent Graustarkian monarchy, out-halfwits his press rival, Paul Kelly, wins the hand of Puppet Princess Helen Mack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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