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Word: halfe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last half of her book is devoted to the Civil War, which she prefers to describe as a fascist invasion. Though she keeps her account simple and personal, she gives an abundance of the war's history, of which, as head of the Foreign Press Bureau, she is well qualified to speak. She handled the press at Geneva when Spain made its futile appeal before the League, feels that the "cynicism and treachery" of the British and French Governments reached their highest points there. Of the four-month battle of the Ebro: "We fought the last part of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spanish Histories | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...black, bobbed up from behind a boulder. It was Author Sanderson's shadow. The cave's incline steepened; he slid down & down. The darkness and rank smell thickened. Then he was standing among the carcasses of old crabs that had crawled down there to die. A half-buried hearth revealed charcoal; around it were large bones-a fugitive's, perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Hunter | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Clicking with championship precision throughout the first half, the Crimson booters ran up a 4 to 0 lead on a weak Brown team Saturday afternoon and succeeded in maintaining it to the end of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Booters Gain 4-0 Win In Tilt with Poor Brown Team | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...season, the team was not as good in the second half as it had been the first, but thanks to the work of Jack Penson, who has developed from a good to a star goalie in the space of three weeks, the Crimson scored its second shutout of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Booters Gain 4-0 Win In Tilt with Poor Brown Team | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...replaced at right full by Roger Oresman, who was hampered by a lack of experience, it is possible that Carr will be forced to return either Ives or Edgar to fullback to bolster the defense. Ives up till last week had been playing full, while Edgar had been at half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Booters Gain 4-0 Win In Tilt with Poor Brown Team | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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