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Word: flings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the entire staff of the University from President Conant down to the lowliest instructor keeping strictly mum, the Cambridge Council's fling for publicity by demanding that Harvard be made a separate and distinct municipality began to die down last night. As a reckoning was made, the following facts had come out of the flareup...

Author: By Caleb Foote, | Title: HARVARD A MUNICIPALITY' STIR GRADUALLY SUBSIDES AS UNIVERSITY SEES PLAN AS RUSE | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

Youth Takes a Fling (Universal) is a mildly pleasant comedy about the Kansas youth (Joel McCrea) who thinks he wants to be a sailor and the New York salesgirl (Andrea Leeds) who knows he doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Most prominent of the Riviera's simple-life addicts last week: U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Morgenthau (they enjoyed two daily swims, shunned night clubs except for one fling, got to bed at 10 every night); U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy and eight young Kennedys; British Secretary of State for Scotland Walter Elliott (served every morning by a procession of hotel servants bringing his breakfast, hot water, clean towels); white-trousered Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich; the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. No French gendarmes watched this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beachcombing | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Times blared forth against him: "It is impossible to expect an early termination of this tragic state while the Mufti is using French-mandated territory for his operations. . . . Meanwhile, young Jews, with their patience exhausted and with the obvious inability of the British to protect them, are having a fling at their Arab enemies! cost them what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Two to One | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...have passed, Harvard will discover that exactly two and five-eighths days have been added to the average fall practice by the new starting date rule. At the present time, these inoffensive two and five-eights days are calling University presidents and sports editors to battle, causing them to fling weighty arguments in praise or damnation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO AND FIVE-EIGHTHS | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

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