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Word: hooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow morning the International Labor Conference will discuss child labor legislation over a world-wide hook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODEL LEAGUE SESSION GETS UNDER WAY TODAY | 3/12/1937 | See Source »

Radcliffe bowed to Harvard in a spelling bee held Saturday afternoon over a National Broadcasting Company hook-up. The contest cannot be called official, since the Dean's office would not sanction a spelling team to go out under the University's banner before an audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE ORTHOGRAPHERS MEET DEFEAT TREMULOUSLY | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...interests. At games away, on the other hand, the team must ride the officials in order to get a fair deal. Thus, by a subtly growing process, the bench turns into a concentration camp of hatred, and the professional spirit,--that the game must be won by whatever hook or crook comes in handy,--tends to displace the amateur ideal of playing for the sake of the sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEATH COMES TO THE UMPIRE | 2/17/1937 | See Source »

...necessity to visit their Western branch offices. Commissioners who feel ready to talk about the regulation of business are also hard to find. To date, however, acceptances have been received from Adolph A. Berle '13, lawyer, professor, business executive and present Chamberlain of New York City; James W. Hook, president of the Geometrical Tool Company of New Haven and a member of President Hoover's National Organization of Unemployment Relief, and Charles W. Kellogg, chairman of the Board of The Engineers Public Service Corporation. Beside these three, a large number of men are still unheard from; more business men have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winant, Morgenthau, Lubin Head List of 40 in Government or Business Coming to Conference | 2/10/1937 | See Source »

...three-quarter-mile toboggan slide led down into South St. Paul's Main Street where "Hook 'Em Cows" prepared to serve 15,000 quarts of stew cooked in a huge kettle outdoors. From the Ice Palace a four-block slide sluiced down Cedar Street. Parks and public rinks were crowded and daily parades of gaudy costumed carnivalists marched and countermarched to watch hockey games, dogsled races, ski jumping, snowshoeing. Inside the State Fair Hippodrome, Ralph Hachenbach of Chicago witj| his long-bladed racing skates sliced almost four seconds off the U. S. two-mile indoor record (time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hook 'Em Cow | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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