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Word: kids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada," he continued, "every kid plays hockey from the time he can walk. That's why the Leafs can profitably have such a quick turnover; there's always a stream of fresh material coming up. Why, hockey's their national game, just as baseball is ours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ability, Experience Make Good Hockey Players Says Art Ross, Bruin Manager | 12/17/1937 | See Source »

...have been waiting a long time for a logical explanation of Surrealism's right to exist; not its existence, mind, but its right to exist. Any kid can sling a ripe tomato, three rotten eggs and a jackknife at a square of wallboard and get a bang-up Surrealistic effect. But is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Married. John Leslie ("Jackie") Coogan, 23, who earned fame & fortune at the age of four by appearing with Charles Spencer Chaplin in The Kid (later in Peck's Bad Boy, Oliver Twist, Little Robinson Crusoe) ; to Betty Grable, 20, famed rather for her long-standing (three year) engagement to Coogan than for her cinema roles (Old Man Rhythm, Follow the Fleet); during a recess in the production of College Swing (in which Miss Grable is the lead and Coogan acts a bit part); in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...safe driving, however, there is one request for which college students can call on him. That is courtesy and respect from police. All too often, when a student is stopped by a policeman, the constabulary takes a hostile attitude on the assumption that the college boy is a "kid who can afford to pay." Such a frame of mind can only lead to resentment from the student, who goes through with his brush with the law determined to "get away with it" next time, rather than cooperate for the benefit of the whole community. Students should be arrested for violations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEED LIMIT--USE YOUR BRAINS | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

...following year Harvard beat Yale 41-0. 41-0, just think of it! A kid named Eddie Mahan played a good game. Four times he plunged head first across the Yale goal line. Five times he swung his toe and a Stadium full watched the ball careen over the goal post for points after. Twenty-nine of Harvard's points were picked up by Mahan who was playing his last game...

Author: By John J. Reidy jr., | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard - Yale . . . A Day for Harvard Greats | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

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