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Word: hack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eateth up the bacon thickle.' or 'Feather by feather the goose is plucked'. . . ." Proverbs as a literary fashion died out with the 17th Century, but still remain the spoon-fed wisdom of the unsophisticated, the crutch for halting orators, the handy rubber stamp of hack-writers cramped for time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark Sayings | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Score--Harvard 36, Tufts 35, Goals Gray 6, Wojeiechowski 6, Radvilas 4, Lavietes 3, White 2, Struck 2, Harris 2, Spath 2, Shirk, Snell, Galuzzka, Fouls--Gray 3, Harris 2, Wojciechowskt 2, White, Lavietes, Struck, Radvilas. Referee--Hack, Roberts. Time--Two 20-minute periods. HARVARD '39 TUFTS '39 Howell, Rumi, r.f., l.f., Weldon Dobbyn, Rabenold, l.f., r.f., Sabiso, Atlas, McCarthy, Copelers Horrigan, c. c., Ellery, Burns Lupien, r.g., l.g., Pearson, Edwards MacLeod, Heckel, l.g., r.g., Hughs, Cutler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY HOPPMEN MEET PENNSYLVANIA TONIGHT | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...literature of his time. Don Juan is not great poetry. "It is...meant to be a little quietly facetious upon everything...a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped." But the Vagabond likes it: "...when the old world grows dull, And we are sick of its hack sounds and sights..." 'tis good to turn to tales of adventure and the like. 'Tis good to go for an hour or so and learn more about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...Republican George H. Moses, onetime New Hampshire Senator, tartly remarked that the country was "going to hell in a hack," that the "sons of the wild jackass are multiplying like jack-rabbits," that "this country cannot continue to exist half Roosevelt, half Frankfurter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Millionaires' Talk | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...their winning streak. At the start of the season, Manager Grimm was the Cubs' regular first baseman. Nineteen-year-old Phil Cayarretta, one year out of a North Side Chicago high school, played the position so well that Manager Grimm let him keep it. He, Third-Baseman Stanley Hack, Outfielders Augie Galan and Frankie Demaree are playing their first season as regulars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cubs v. Tigers | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

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