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Word: graces (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michael P. Grace '40, president of the newly formed "Young Conservatives," last night announced along with a platform statement that an ambitious program is being pushed by the organization to bring prominent speakers before open forums scheduled this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUNG CONSERVATIVES AGREE UPON PLATFORM | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

...absorbed in something else, some of the boys clamber up the shaky wall, and disregarding the poignant fact that the bricks upon which they seek footholds may crumble away beneath them with unchivalric suddenness, they loop the cable around the highest point they can reach. Then, with the grace and recklessness of mountain goats they skip down to safety, shouting "Okay, John!" to the toothy pug seated in the driver's seat of the truck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hemenway Gymnasium Collapses Before Vicious Onslaughts of House Wreckers Who Cheer Wildy As They Tear It Down | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...either side of the Atlantic. Forty-four-year-old Sir Cedric Hardwicke (youngest actor ever knighted) plays the witty Canon Skerritt, who glories in the forms of Catholicism, finds comfort in its intellectual discipline as he sips his old Madeira, calls his parishioners boobs, but achieves a state of grace through the faith of his kitchen slavey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Grace Coolidge wanted to cut off her hair, obtained Husband Calvin's permission, failed to get that of Son John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Co-Operacy | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...lunches were made compulsory throughout Italy, but not at the expense of the State. Rich moppets will be charged enough to pay for their lunches and those of poor moppets as well. Rich or poor, every Italian school child will be required, before eating school lunch, to say this grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: For Richer, For Poorer | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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