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Word: gree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice peered more intently than ever into the use of Federal funds and the status of certain income taxes in Louisiana. Attorney Gen eral Frank Murphy in Washington intimated that he had known for weeks of matters amiss in Baton Rouge. Recently Mr. Murphy accepted an honorary de gree from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Jimmy the Stooge | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...years its junior. Once considered attractive enough to lure crowds of 15,000 to 20,000, college base-)all now attracts only 3,000 or 4,000 specators to its big games. Why this hoary U. S. sport has been snubbed by undergraduates and alumni, no two college men gree. But baseball experts have not ignored college baseball. In its rosters major-league scouts have found many a man for their clubs' lineups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Baseball | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Until July 1, 1937 Victor Hall, assistant professor of Physiology at Stanford, gree of bathroom humor, (the W.C. was invented in 1592 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Queen Elizabeth, according to the staff of History 1) it is still in bad odor with arbiters of public taste such as Will Hays. For example, no glimpse was to be had of this delightful piece of furniture in the bathroom scenery of "Swing Time." With some pleasure and no fear this department takes pleasure in offering a copy of its composite picture of allRepublicannomineesforpublicofficeattheNovemberelections to anyone who reports a bona...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN APPOINTMENTS TO COLLEGE FACULTY | 10/21/1936 | See Source »

...despite the distinguished pedi- gree of bathroom humor, (the W.C. was invented in 1592 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Queen Elizabeth, according to the staff of History 1) it is still in bad odor with arbiters of public taste such as Will Hays. For example, no glimpse was to be had of this delightful piece of furniture in the bathroom scenery of "Swing Time." With some pleasure and no fear this department takes pleasure in offering a copy of its composite picture of allRepublicannomineesforpublicofficeattheNovemberelections to anyone who reports a bona fide instance of this item having appeared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 10/21/1936 | See Source »

...Harvard Commencement, officially opened by ancient custom by the blue-coated, top-hatted, be-sworded High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Alfred Emanuel Smith was given an LL. D. de gree. To rousing applause Citizen Smith was saluted by a class orator: "Te quoque, Alfrede praestantissime, felix ille miles, quamquam carmina de viis Novi Eboraci cantare non possumus . . . hand minus iuvat salutare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

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