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Word: hills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team leaves today for Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, where they will enter the Hocheberge Annual Down Hill Race along the Taft Trail. They will compete with teams from other eastern colleges in a double-header down-hill race on Saturday and a double-header slalom race on Sunday. Slated to leave with the team tomorrow are Bill Hinton, Harry Hollmeyer, John Pierpont, Joseph Thomas, Bill Thurston, and Tom Winship. Captain Hinton admits the odds are heavily stacked against them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Skiers to Compete In Race at Franconia Notch | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

...Only 12% suggested death as a way out. Most of these callously told Lonely Man to shoot himself or jump off North Hill viaduct (favorite local suicide spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Easy Death | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...just "one of the boys." When asked what was his most embarrassing moment, the scourge of the pretty debs blushed while admitting that once he cut in on an old man dancing with a "fetching girl robed in white taffeta" (courtesy Betty Alden's column, "On Beacon Hill") and asked her "Who was that old geezer you were dancing with?" The fetching girl etc. responded lightly and politely, "Oh him. He's my father. He's giving the party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fanatic Moocher Crashes Gates of Most Deb Parties | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...Treasury-Post Office supply bill, Mr. Morgenthau calmly observed that a public debt of $50,000,000,000 was in certain prospect for the U. S., and would by no means strain the nation's financial structure. Shocked protests answered Mr. Morgenthau. But realists on Capitol Hill knew that he was only putting it mildly. They knew that the PUB† era is here to stay as long as any member of Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet can foretell, and they knew that Mr. Morgenthau's speech was only the polite introduction of an act which the Economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Economy? | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...glad it's all over," George C. Cunningham, Jr., '42 signed after he barely escaped injury in a freak accident on Quincy Street yesterday morning. A driverless car pulled out of the curb, rolled down the hill, across the sidewalk, and smashed into a stone foncopost near where Cunningham was standing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUNAWAY FORD PRECIPITATES PAST FRESHMAN, INTO FENCE | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

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