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Word: lateness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this day and age of football when the "passing" game is quite exacting, I see no reason why in your Oct. 23 issue, you should not be equally as exacting when you refer to me as the "late Big Bill Edwards. . . ." TIME has certainly fumbled the ball. Let me say that my physical condition is pretty good and that I am able to get around with my 282 pounds and not miss much that is going on and around the springboard at my Connecticut camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...most damnable thing!" cried Democrat John Dempsey of New Mexico, who was absent (as usual) when the committee first voted to publish the list. Three minutes late at a meeting called to hear his belated objections, Committeeman Dempsey vainly stormed, with Mr. Voorhis vainly carried his protests to the House floor. Least excited were those immediately concerned. The League's publicized members ranged all the way from a Capitol charwoman, who makes 50? an hour, to NLRB's Edwin Seymour Smith, who makes $10,000 a year, and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Witches | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...late. Unhappy Mr. Voorhis, knowing not what he had done, had already voted to publish the names, addresses, titles and salaries of 528 Federal employes, 30 District of Columbia schoolteachers, nurses, social workers, etc., four teachers at Howard (Negro) University, all of whom supposedly were or had been members of the American League for Peace and Democracy. Martin Dies did not pretend that they were Communists. He flatly announced that they were being punished for staying in a League which his committee had exposed as organized and controlled by the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Witches | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Norwegian fishermen reported sighting the prize ship late today well out at sea off Haughesuns, less than 125 miles from the Skagerrak entrance to the Baltic from the North...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

Gentlemen, the New England Repertory has really been kicking the gong around of late. With a flying swan dive off the deep end, they have produced "Adam the Creator" by the Czech "enfant terrible" of the theatre, Karel Capek. The general keynote of the script is that God made an awful mess of things during those first seven days--but then, again, is there anyone in the audience who thinks he could do a better...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/2/1939 | See Source »

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