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Word: laterally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale arrives at 12:37 o'clock today on a special train and moves into the Stadium an hour later for a brief practice session...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Dick Harlow Surrounds His Six Possible Backfield Starters in Mystery Veil on Eve of Game | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Princeton officials used the same arguments advanced by Jerome D. Greene, '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and later affirmed by the President and Fellows, in its refusal to allow the Whig-Cliosophic Society to sponsor a talk by Browder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Opens Gates to Browder As Seymour Gives Permission | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Last week the Harvard University Corporation rescinded its permission for a student meeting at which Earl Browder was to speak. It did so with the explanation that his indictment for a passport violation had made him unfit for a Harvard platform. Three days later a mob of legionnaires and assorted thugs descended on a Detroit meeting-hall where Communist leader William Z. Foster was delivering an address. They picketed boisterously, and when the meeting ended and the crowd began to disperse, they went into action. They created a tumultuous riot, inflicted injuries on nearly fifty people who had attended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

After a smattering of college, Son Robert started a river line that nearly ran his father's out of business. Later Son Robert caught tuberculosis and went to Colorado. When World War I came, Rhea enlisted in the air force. As luck would have it he cracked up and got a piece of the propeller through his lung. Back to Colorado Springs went he, a permanent invalid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prophet in Bed | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Excellently made (with his own money, according to Producer Korda, though later the British Government bought it), the picture maintained a mounting tension as thrilling as its theme sound of droning airplane engines. But it also had a quiet humor. Sample: during the Kiel raid the navigator asked his pilot to "pick up Middleton" (a BBC lecturer who talks on gardening). Satisfied that Britons have forgotten none of the talent for first-rate propaganda they developed during World War I, the Ministry of Information announced that similar films on U-boats, convoys, a great military picture about the Maginot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Air Lion | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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