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Word: helps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farmer Simon, who loves his Spotty, set to digging for her. When he found that the hole twisted & turned, then ducked into a limestone crevasse, he enlisted the help of eleven friends. For 260½ hours Emmet Simon and his crew worked in shifts like mine rescuers. They blasted and dug, encouraged during the first ten days by feeble, subterranean barking. By night bonfires lit their labor; by day they gulped neighbors' sandwiches and coffee. When they had used their no sticks of dynamite, they blasted with loose black powder. On the eleventh day, just after lunch, a cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Buried Alive | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...said to exist on the ball field last year. But baseball, it seems, has become the most neglected of the seven majors. The Athletic Association has forgotten that baseball is the national sport. Restoration of the baseball Junior Varsity team and the reorganization of fall practice would probably help. Indeed they are necessities if baseball is to gain back its former student support. As in hockey, however, the primary need is the recognition of a year-round coaching system for the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YEAR-ROUND COACHES | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...beer baron who is none other than that grand little gee, Edward G. Robinson. I start to take notice; this Mr. Robinson has got the stuff, I decide. The story is a killer. In several ways it is a killer. First of all several gees get killed to help the plot along. Second, I get a few real laughs at this Mr. Robinson who almost fails in the brewery business before he tastes his own beer and discovers what is the trouble with his product's demand schedule. I give the big ha-ha to this Allen Jenkins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...short, the means are often taken for the aim, the sign for the thing represented. Thus Professor Lake's comments seem both familiar and well founded, and I cannot help wondering why the Crimson makes these remarks of Professor Lake's an occasion for criticizing a great and humane scholar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

...Will Help Membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A.F.L. WILL SET UP OWN INSIDE UNION TO COMBAT RIVAL | 3/8/1938 | See Source »

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