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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To compete in the major-league circuit -the 100-odd rodeos sponsored by the R. A. A.-a cowboy must be a better-than-average bronc rider, calf roper, steer wrestler or steer rider. More than that, he must be willing to take a chance. A cowboy on the range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Career Cowboys | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Baseball fans, aware that the Yankees have most of the best young baseballers in the U. S. tucked away on their farms, wondered if they would live to see, ever again, a pull-devil-pull-baker World Series.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four Straight | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Agha's success formula is to start a publishing fad, develop another before its popularity has waned. First in the U. S. was he to drop capital letters from a magazine's typography, to "bleed" illustrations to a page's edge. Other dodges of his: asymmetric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young Turk | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

In fact, if I can help it

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young Turk | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

The unhappy ending to a 20-year-old story was written when a 13-man military court found World War I's slickest draft-dodger, pudgy Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, guilty of wartime desertion, sent him back to his Army cell on Governor's Island in New York Bay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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