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Word: hadn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hadn't meant to read that poem when he picks up his Kipling. And now he thought of young John Kipling of the Irish Guards, lying under a white wooden cross in his same "tireless soil." How did it go? "There is some spot on foreign ..." Vag checked himself. He wouldn't think about that. The hand of death had lain heavily on France, but there were parts it had not touched, parts where there were laughter and bright lights and crowded busses, parts where people danced all through the night and the sky was pink from the neon below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

Conjunctions of dreamy, intellectual Jews and effervescent Irishmen may have ocurred before but never more effectively than in Cohen & Corcoran. Their mutual admiration is boundless. Ben says: "If it hadn't been for Tom, I would never have been heard of." Tom thinks Ben ought to get Cardozo's place on the Supreme Court. They call themselves catalysts-agents who cause reactions to occur without themselves being altered. Despite the seeming change in Corcoran, into a politician with power for the moment as great as Jim Farley's, this remains essentially true. Ambition for high office does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Janizariat | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...know. I once asked Mr. Roosevelt himself. He just turned and looked out the window as if he hadn't seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Answer Me! | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Moser, who refused to accept a pension four years ago, likes working for Harvard, although he is not overly emotional in saying so. "Well, if I hadn't liked it, I'd of gotten out before this," he remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Hall Custodian Ends Fifty Years as University Employee; Refused a Pension and Joined No Labor Union | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

...Lightbody was not the hero of the mile relay Saturday. Dick Gill of Boston College would have beaten him if it hadn't been for a ten yard deficit at the start of their last leg. As it was Gill closed eight yards between them, running his quarter in the excellent time of 47.8 seconds. The Harvard team which was composed of Joe Donnelly, Frannie King, Tudor Richards, and Lightbody won the race despite Gill's performance in 3 min. 22.6 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Nine Wins Third, Northrop Star of Track Meet | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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