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Word: handsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Crimson asks that we wait until an issue arises before forming such committees for defense of academic freedom, which may be interpreted as the freedom to study as well as the freedom of students and teachers to speak their minds. Issues enough are at hand. The Industrial Mobilization Plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

As in the last war, most of the sweep volunteers were fishermen, whose hard-boiledness is widely advertised now by their radio telephones. Magnificent profanity, ribald bets and sweepstakes played against death filled the short-wave bands. The Royal Navy makes no attempt to discipline these mariners, whose women are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Quiet But Fierce | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

The Ritter Span, invented two years ago by 20-year-old Andrew Mowbray Ritter, University of Michigan junior and Gamma Sigma's president, is a complicated back flip in which a performer leaps into the air, twists his body into a horizontal arc "which he holds momentarily," then lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Silver-haired, sharp-tongued, zealous Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

In Santa Ana, Calif., Sheriff Jesse Elliott described the aftermath of a county jailbirds' party featuring fermented prune and peach juice: "Colossal hangovers, loss of good behavior ratings, and social ostracism at the hands of other prisoners."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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