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Word: late (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lion hoopmen got off to a late practice start and probably will not hit their stride until well after the Christmas holidays. As holdovers from the 1939 five which finished second only to Dartmouth in the final standings, Coach Paul Mooney has little Albie Myers and Jack Naylor, regulars, and John Gilligan, a reserve who saw plenty of action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speedy Courtment, Unbalanced Swim Squad Seen for Lions | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

Died. Lorin Wright, 77, little-known elder brother of the famed Orville and the late Wilbur Wright, business genius for his plane-brained brothers in their early manufacturing days; after long illness; in Dayton, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...occasion: first of three Junior Assembly dances, demarcating what Society calls Society from what the public calls Society (run-of-the-mine Social Registerites). Notably present: Mary A. (for Alrichs) Steele, tall, blonde, beauteous daughter of the late Socialite Banker John Nelson Steele, earlier this year the candidate of Stork Club's Pressagent Charles ("Chic") Farmer for 1940 Glamor Girl. Notably absent: Patricia Plunkett, shapely, blonde daughter of Mrs. Dunbar Plunkett, suggested by Glamorizer Farmer as substitute candidate when Mrs. Steele yanked Mary back into the shadows of glamorless respectability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...succeed the late famed Utilitarian James Simpson, directors of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. last week elected a new chairman: big, white-haired General Counsel Charles Yoe Freeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Elections | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Consisting of 218 books, 25 posters, 17 issues of a literary magazine called The Chap-Book, it includes most of the works published between 1893 and 1905 by the late great Chicago publishing house of Stone & Kimball (later Herbert S. Stone & Co.).* To a generation that looks to the East for intelligent publishing, the story of this output is provocative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Man's Literature | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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