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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slugged around all season with a tough schedule. They'll put up a great fight in the first half, then probably tire. After that the Elis won't be able to do much more than pass and pray. Harvard has much better running hacks; but it should be a hell of a game of tactics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Favored In Ten of Eleven Sports Forecasts | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...Salvation Army Banquet. So, being, as everyone knows, a frightful opportunist, he decided to make the people like him by giving them Thanksgiving a week early so that they wouldn't have to wait so long. And he did, and they won't, and the Salvation Army objected like Hell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...ranter, Gypsy Smith preaches of Christ Crucified, rambling as evangelists do. He has told audiences: "You are my manuscript. I look into your faces and wait for God to tell me what to say." He sings hymns in a sweet tenor, solo and with the congregation. He threatens no hell fire, for he believes that "it's no good to scold poor sinners. I know now it's better to love them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: For Pagans | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Pulitzer Prize. Twenty were sold to the movies for a total of over $1,500,000. Further, Kaufman ranks as one of the best directors in show business, and off the stage as well as on, as one of Manhattan's greatest wits. Once, just for the hell of it, he wrote a play all by himself-and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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