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Word: franked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American shibboleth. Ushers were Wisconsin football players wearing red sweaters with huge white Ws. Originator, organizer and chief speaker at the meeting was Wisconsin's bespectacled 41-year-old Governor Philip Fox La Follette, whose supporters last spring ousted from the University's presidency Mr. Glenn Frank, the man who is now engaged in preparing a new charter for the Republican Party. Governor La Follette's purpose was to launch a national political organization with the definite political objective of electing a bloc of Congressmen this fall, with the probable objective of electing himself President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Progressives at Madison | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Last week readers of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin wondered whether that Spartan boy was just a freak, after all-a child who could not feel pain. For the Bulletin told of two little Baltimore boys and a girl who were like the Spartan. Johns Hopkins' Drs. Frank Rodolph Ford & Lawson Wilkins discovered them, found that they stubbed toes, barked shins, broke bones, chewed fingers raw, lifted hot plates off stoves - all without complaint. Even when the tender Achilles tendon (just above the heel) "is squeezed these children make no protest and show no sign of pain," reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spartans | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...added attraction, a Manhattan nightclub with an eye for publicity introduced to its patrons last week a zebra (see cut) with a hangdog expression, accompanied by Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck. To the great delight of photographers, the zebra, after posing wearily for its picture, shook itself from head to foot, tripped Tamer Buck, sent him sprawling to his knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Capers | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Cleveland Amory, Oliver P. Bolton, Robert M. Bunker, Charles L. Burwell, William L. Calfee, Edmond LaB. Cherbonnier, Harold M. Curtiss, Jr., Frank P. Davidson, Ellsworth S. Grant, Robert L. Green, Jr., Albert J. Hanlon, Jr., Francis A. Harding, Jr., J. Spence Harvin, Richard P. Hedblom, Hunter Hendee, Robert E. Lane, Laurence S. Levy, Robert E. L. Strider, Richard H. Sullivan, James Tobin, and Paul R. Wentworth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 21 Juniors, 13 Sophomores Are Nominated for Student Council | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Harvard men on the Crimson team are: Angus McIntosh '26, Richard S. Smith 1G, H. R. X. D'Aeth '2G, David C. Russell, 1G, John E. G. Raymond, 1G, Patrick H. Nowell-Smith, 1G, and Frank W. Hatfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Tackles Vassar in Hockey | 5/7/1938 | See Source »

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