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Word: hadn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiery little Bill Stewart, a baseball umpire for six years, was flabbergasted at being sent to the showers in the middle of the second inning. Said he: "I would have lasted longer if I hadn't talked back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Instead of reviewing the book, your author has attacked Southern Naval Policy. . . . How about Lincoln's naval policy? If his navy hadn't been so busy blockading every Confederate port and starving Southern women and children to death while his armies were marching around pillaging and burning everything in sight, he might have saved his merchant marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...called "I hadn't anyone till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Apparently the burglars had just rifled the room and hadn't started to put the articles in their car. The recovered goods included six suits, two overcoats, 18 shirts, nine pairs of shoes and a radio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JANITOR AT KIRKLAND HOUSE ROUTS BANDITS; GETS GOODS | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

...might very well have found it inconvenient if the guest of honor hadn't been some one very special. He was Harvard's most famous professor, subject of anecdotes the world over, brilliant, witty, learned and slightly left of center. His students awesomely spoke of him as the Great Red Pepper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

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