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Word: headedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicknamed "Pudge," hefty Heffelfinger that first year trotted out on the gridiron to do what the coaches expected of him. No empty-headed bruiser, he made a place for himself in the Varsity rush-line. (In those days there were no prissy eligibility rules; a man could play from his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Yale's Pudge | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Ted Healy, for instance, an engaging, bald-headed young man, is assisted in his swift antics by a trio of abject, greasy nondescripts whose entrance prompts Mr. Healy to remark: "The pool rooms are empty." This group becomes embroiled with a wrestling bear which seems more human than any of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Optimistic observers of the Paris conference refused to be depressed. It was pointed out that bristle-headed Dr. Vögler was an avowed Nationalist, that he had from the first refused to agree to any payments beyond 37 years, that he was directly responsible to the Ruhr industrialists, who were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Impasse | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Meanwhile Soviet authorities were preparing to spend a million rubles in the development of the Perm fields. There are no differences of opinion between the Russian government and the Russian petroleum industry. Russian oil is produced by about six Russian companies and one Japanese company with a Russian concession. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gratification v. Pay | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

The eleven eminent citizens whom President Hoover has constituted a commission to inquire into the law-breaking habits of their fellows, and into the nature of the laws which they break, and into the causes and circumstances of the breakage, headed last week for Washington to receive their instructions. George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Commission | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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