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Word: halfe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn. A Jewish cop (Sam Levene), who has been appointed by a prankish mayor to guard the consul, sees that he is in a tight place. Unless the murderer is caught at once, all the Jews in the Reich will suffer because Officer Finkelstein failed to prevent the murder. Half by bludgeoning, half by clowning, Officer Finkelstein gets the mystery solved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...mother has become such a Mother's Day ikon* that a separate study of the Woman Behind the Painting became inevitable. If Biographer Mumford† had had the style to confine her monograph within 200 incisive pages, she might have added something to literature. By being half again as long as that, and by a dutifully winsome acceptance of Anna McNeill Whistler at face value, her book achieves another kind of effect: the case history in 19th Century terms of a dear, good, pious, plaintive, prissy, possessive woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whistler's Parents | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...tying for first place in the first annual Heptagonal meet, the Crimson gained half of a leg on the Junius T. Auerbach Memorial Trophy. Yale with 76 points, Princeton with 87, Dartmouth with 94, and Penn with 134 trailed in that order, as Columbia failed to finish a team...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Unbeaten Harriers Share Ivy League Victory With Cornell | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Chief Crimson surprises were the amazing performance of Lightbody, a virtual novice at cross country, and Simboli's failure to finish up with the leaders after heading the pack for most of the first half-of the five-mile run, sometimes by over 50 yards...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Unbeaten Harriers Share Ivy League Victory With Cornell | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...biggest upset was Emery Wingerter's performance. The Cornell Senior cannily rated himself well off the pace in the early stages of the run, worked himself up into first shortly after the half-way mark, and blasted across the finish line three seconds ahead of Yale's Bill Watson...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Unbeaten Harriers Share Ivy League Victory With Cornell | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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