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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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>In shooting mallards, decoys are unnecessary if you have a good duck call.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

>If you suffer from cold feet, use rubber boots lined with sheepskin and no socks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

When the British wanted to honor the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, famed Victorian philanthropist, they did it with a pun. His memorial fountain in London's bustling Piccadilly Circus is topped by an aluminum winged archer shooting an arrow downward ("burying a shaft"). Popularly, the statue is known as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hub's Hub's Hub | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Back in Texas, Elijah William Cunningham went to work as a reporter for the Dallas News, at the same time coached Southern Methodist University's football team. One of his jobs as a reporter was to interview Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Bill, married only a few days, took his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ill-tempered Clavichord | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

There was the time a struggling Notre Dame team came East and whipped Army 7-0. Bill Cunningham said the reason was that years before, when Notre Dame's immortal George Gipp lay dying, he had called for Knute Rockne. "If things ever get too tough for Notre Dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ill-tempered Clavichord | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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