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Word: handfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slumped in a front-row black-leather seat in the House last week, chin cupped in hand, listening to a pale, grave, calm President (see p. 11), possible attacks on that aggressive defense went through his mind. By week's end one thing was clear about the isolationist strategy: the old bogey of the House of Morgan was to be hung like an albatross around Franklin Roosevelt's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Michigander | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...looking for records, the Square is well stocked with stores which despite a surplus of Kay Kayser, manage to keep a pretty satisfying stock on hand. Well-founded rumor has it that an attempt is being made to found a real swing club at Harvard with record concerts and demonstrations by some of the country's best. And then the House Committees always slip up occasionally and get a good band for one of the House dances...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

Cross Old Hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slavic Professor Will Direct Foreign Language Newscasts | 9/29/1939 | See Source »

Professor Cross is an old hand at this game. It was last spring that he began writing experimental news broadcasts in German for W2XAL, a non-commercial station owned and operated by the World-Wide Broadcasting Foundation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slavic Professor Will Direct Foreign Language Newscasts | 9/29/1939 | See Source »

Imperialism? Nonsense. A cynical sacrifice of ideology to power-lust? More nonsense. Russia was protecting peace by strengthening her own hand and by exposing the "Municheers." She was protecting the liberty of Poland by forestalling an imminent Munich--since the only ultimate aim of such another debacle would be a four-way partition of Russia herself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HICKS AND STONES | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

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