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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those leaving will hold improved appointments next year while the instruction in the elementary courses will be left to comparatively inexperienced younger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Termination of Eight Appointments in Department of Economics Is Revealed | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

...coal miners' children (ambitious to be doctors, lawyers, businessmen, teachers, actresses), the nine Morgantown boys and four girls, aged 16-19, had, with three exceptions, never seen a big city. First stop after they left their strike-bound coal fields was Washington, where they were bedded in a tourist camp, rose at 4:30 to begin sightseeing, ended the day marveling at how little work Congressmen did to earn their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Other Half | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Joyce's curious glasses give him a somewhat Martian appearance. The left lens is so thick it is almost a hemisphere, and to focus it is necessary for him to throw back his head slightly when looking at people. Ten years ago, Joyce could not see with his left eye at all, and a cataract was beginning to form on the right eye. Every operation on the left eye caused a hemorrhage. Finally Dr. Alfred Vogt of Zurich succeeded in making an artificial pupil for the left eye, set in below the position of the normal pupil. The cataract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Joyce left Ireland ("the old sow that eats her farrow") 35 years ago and went to Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary, to live by "silence, exile and cunning." In Trieste his children were born. In 1915 Joyce was so busy with Ulysses that he scarcely noticed that Italy and Austria were about to fight until frontiers began to close. A Greek friend (Joyce is superstitious about Greeks, believes that they bring him luck, that nuns do not) got him permission to leave through Italy. Along the frontier, each time he passed a station, it was dynamited behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Dartmouth's Varsity baseball team came through with three booming hits off Tom Bealey in the pinches at Hanover Saturday afternoon, while the Crimson left runner after runner stranded on the sacks thus shoving Floyd Stahl's nine into second place in the E. I. L. on the short end of a 5 to 3 count...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Stahlmen Fall to Second Place In E.I.L. by Failing in Pinches | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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