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Word: handly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ahead of Lupien on the minor league ladder leading to Boston is one Paul Campbell, plucked off the North Carolina campus. Campbell spent last year in Louisville and did a corking job at first base. Then, of course, there is always a fellow named Foxx on hand when the Back Bay Bombers trek south for the opening practices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lupien Sparked Scranton Nine To League Win, Claims Collins | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...first month and a half of every college year Harvard Square is a haven for various types of professional spongers who prey on the gullible Harvard men for hand-outs," Dennett said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Head Warns Against Influx of Beggars in Square | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...contest was the first for the Ramblers, and they showed their inexperience in a lack of teamwork and blocking. The Bunnies, on the other hand, seemed to have hit their stride, and as they outweighed the scrappy Dorm boys 15 pounds per man, the score was remarkably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNNIES BEAT GREEN DORMITORY TEAM, 19-0 | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...other hand, the Committee of Eight envisaged a considerable expansion in the ranks of associate professors. While there was no mention of the matter, this suggestion carried with it the inescapable implicit assumption that many of the increased number of associate professors could never be advanced--that they would have to be appointed without predictable vacancies ahead of them. In view of this, President Conant could easily have appointed the men in question to permanent positions, after having made a few simple salary adjustments. The Committee, in recommending no hasty action, may well have intended this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD ROUND | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...netizes a colored farm girl, troubles Tom's flesh by getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed by a touch from James Oliver Curwood when Pete kills a farmer in hand-to-hand fight. The story then swings quickly to mild Faulkner ; Tom loses Pete but finds Lucy, a wild little girl who runs away with him because "dad's got so he's queer with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plausible Echoes | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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