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Word: humes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story-book adventures of the pioneers who crossed the North American prairie wastes in their Conestaga wagons influenced David Hume '40 into priming up his own prairie schooner, a model A flivver of uncertain vintage, for a Christmas holiday jaunt through Canada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR RUINS FORD AFTER USING SNOWBANK AS A BEAKE | 1/12/1939 | See Source »

...pretty good cast. Perey Kilbridge is excellent as Pop Clifford, who travels around the country "straightening out" his son-in-laws. Quill, the meek little man who used to think that men who wore top hats never had to go to the bathroom, is overplayed by Hume Cronyn. Barbara Robbins as Evelyn Quill does nothing to redeem a role which is entirely out of key. Harold Grau, Matt Briggs, Naomi Rae, and Otto Hulett are all good, and Donald Oenslager's hotel room set is particularly effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...hume it Mae Concearn: This is to sertify that Annie Bell Bowden is living with 8 th husben. Mother and father's home at Moorehead, N. C. Mother name Mary Elizer, Father Willie Henry Nobles and she was the mother of twenty one (21) children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 8 Husben | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...Hume of Lowell was long man in the broad jump at 18 feet 11 1/4 inches while his team total was 53 feet 8 1/2 inches, which is some leap for a Bellboy. Kirkland was second with 52 feet 5 inches. Larry Campbell of Kirkland topped the high jumpers with a leap of 5 feet 6 inches, but his team's total of 15 feet was two inches under the Lowell aggregation's combined efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Triumph is House Track Meet, Tallying 46 1-2 Points to Lowell's 31 | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

...right sat a Philosophy professor. Vag had taken Phil. A way back in his sophomore year. Now he didn't even remember what epistemology was. What was that course about? Oh, yes, Descartes. "I think, therefore I am!" That had been very simple. Spinoza... Spinoza... complete blank. Hume: If one billiard ball strikes another at a velocity of...Oh, well, who was on his left?... Directly opposite sat the House Master. God! This was the center of the table and sitting on the Master's right, close enough for Vag to kick in the shins was the Great Red Pepper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

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