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Word: halled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back to his baton after three years of musical silence went wax-mustached Bandmaster Victor Aloysius ("Vic") Meyers, lieutenant governor of Washington. Said he, after leading his brand-new band in Seattle's Trianon Dance Hall: "It's all right to be lieutenant governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...basis of past performances, the two outstanding U. S. trapshooters last week were 31-year-old Joe Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio, and 31-year-old Lela Hall of Strasburg, Mo. (pop. 144). During the week Farmer Hiestand broke 900 clay pigeons without a miss for a new world's record long run of 966, including 200 straight in the North American men's championship, which he won for the third time. Housewife Hall, who has ample time to practice because her husband owns a restaurant, has been called the best shot since Annie Oakley. During 1937 she shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Shots | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...That hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...raised the umbrella and pointed at a building opposite them. "Ahead of you, my friend, lies Memorial Hall. There your fear should begin. It is big and ugly and lonely." He dropped the umbrella so that the point scratched the sidewalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...suspicious of everyone and everything until you are sure in your own maturing mind who and what is good or bad. If you come with an open mind, you will accept with equanimity the eccentricities of the Harvard community. You will be prepared to sign your name in Memorial Hall on registration day until your arm is numb; you will keep solicitors at arm's length, especially those who try to sell you heat, or Anderson bridge, or a funny magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO 1942 | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

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