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Word: john (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funny." There is an ice carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with pratt falls; there is an affecting and terrible sequence, in somewhat doubtful taste, about a unicorn. The book as a whole might be described as a shake-up of British rectory humor, Evelyn Waugh, Laurel & Hardy, John Erskine, and the Marquis de Sade, quite well enough blended to please the palate of Sword-in-the-Stone partisans, to assure its author definite standing among such cult men as A. P. Herbert, P. G. Wodehouse, Lewis Carroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arthurian Cocktail | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...debating team lost a heart breaking decision to St. John's College of Brooklyn Friday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING TEAM LOSES | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

With a plea for a "sound health program in the public school," varsity Soccer Coach John F. Carr '29 speeded up his preparations yesterday for the heated Cambridge School Committee contest in the final election tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Athletics for All," Asks Carr In Bid for Election Tomorrow | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

According to John J. Gallan, assistant librarian in charge of Boylston Reading Room, the number of students in Boylston on Monday night taxed the seating capacity of 160, and many students could not find chairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOYLSTON JAMMED AS TUTORING SLACKS UP | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Next week Harvard is scheduled to meet Mt. Holyoke on the subject "Government Censorship and Control of Communications." This will be a New England hookup over station WAAB, as was the St. John's debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING TEAM LOSES | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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