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Word: gins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Play in the first half-season will be gin with two games on the House court on Monday, while before Christmas each team in the league is expected to have played four times. If there is enough general interest shown a B league of second teams may also be formed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE BASKETBALL TO HOLD FIRST PRACTICE | 12/4/1934 | See Source »

...Manhattan, once every week, to a grubby little room on Eighth Avenue went a check from the city relief bureau. The old couple who lived there were always waiting. First thing they did when the check arrived was to buy a bottle of gin. Then they sat on the stairs, guzzled gin, laughed and howled and slapped each other on the back. Last fortnight, after one of their bouts, the tipsy husband tried to light the gas heater. While he fumbled with the matches, gas flooded the room, brought Death to the old couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Lady | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Army game, than after any other major game this year. Is Harvard weakening? No, the reason is that the Harvard men had less reason to drown their grief than at the previous games for the Harvard team's heartening touchdown took the place of many a quart of gin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fighting Harvard Rooters Barely Defeat West Point in Very Thrilling Alcoholic Encounter | 11/15/1934 | See Source »

...Baron no wine from U. S. vineyards. "I have not tasted any yet, and I am sorry!" he exclaimed. "As a Frenchman I know that it must be California wines which will give your common people their first taste for something better than their beer, their whiskey or their gin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Wine Gotha | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...means let TIME make its advertisements as interesting as its editorial content. I would much rather read an item such as Milshire Gin's facetious blurb for "Grandma's Old-Fashioned Gin Sponge-Cake" [TIME, July 16] than one of TIME's own recorded facts to the effect that one Dr. Morgan used "Drosophila melanogaster" [TIME, Oct. 1] in his laboratory experiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 5, 1934 | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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