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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Champions who in many ways rated the title of "the best dual meet team in the country." This year Hal's problem is different, for of last season's tankmen only Captain Rusty Greenhood, Harley Stowell, and Phil Walker have departed with the Class of '39. What he has left is a nucleus of experienced Seniors and Juniors, and a horde of Sophomores who make up in spirit for what they may lack in ability...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

Lamar's classes for beginners consist of about 15 minutes of calisthenics, about 15 minutes of shadow boxing and footwork practice, and about seven minutes of training in punching and blocking. At present the beginners are working on the left jab to the head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifty Men Are In Training for Boxing Tournaments to Be Held This Winter | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

Those who admire Coffin poetry may be disappointed in his most recent prose attempt, for the chronicle of the Pennells is almost strictly a narrative with little room left for the author's creative talent. What poetic expressions there are occur only in small snatches. The book is a diary which relies on simplicity and authenticity for its effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

...Dukes-bury before, barges into her boudoir, woos her with this Marxian dialectric: "Those June nights on the Riviera . . . and that night I drank champagne from your slipper -two quarts." The big scene is the party for the 400. "Judge Chanock," says Mrs. Dukesbury graciously, "will sit on my left hand, you (to Groucho) will sit on my right hand." "How will you eat," cracks Groucho, "through a tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...these new systems of appointment in themselves do nothing to alleviate the strain on present instruction which was created when the assistant professors were sent down the chute last spring. At that time several departments were left under-staffed in vitally important fields, and the situation can be corrected only by rehiring several of these men--of proven brilliance--where they are needed. The new policies provide the instruments by which this therapy can be accomplished, for the men can be taken on as additional associate professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND PHASE | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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