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Word: light (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harding's penalty shot goal in 14.41 minutes of the third canto was easily the high-light of a wide-open, exciting game. The shot was called by referee Foley when Wes Goding, the Dartmouth goalie, picked up the puck during a scrimmage around the net and slipped it into his pads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH SEXTET EDGES VARSITY 2-1 | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

...Neil is one of the younger directors of the latest crusading organization for an American Utopia; he first saw the "light" sometime before the turn of the century. One of the objectives of the movement is to "combat and defeat all un-American movements" which O'Neil considers mainly as consisting of Communism and Fascism, but which he believes includes most youth organizations today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leader of Dorchester Youth Movement May Hit Un-Americanism at Harvard | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

...players were given loosening up work and light throwing and then subjected to a short batting drill with the pitchers tossing them, in at half speed. Regular Varsity team men from last year reporting for the first team were outfielders Bob Gannett, Rud Hoye, and Jo-Jo Soltz, and infielder Dick Grondahl. Last year's Freshman regulars include Jim Tully, Fred Keyes, and Charlie Davis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forty Baseball Men Report For First Practice Session | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

Told by an elderly Danish humorist, this modernized version of the Jonah story proceeds in like vein. Its humor comes from breezy folktale slang, matter-of-factness in the miracle scenes, with Jonah fumbling around in the whale's belly like a man looking for a light switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jonah | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...whimsical way, Margaret Fishback backs this thesis, and Safe Conduct is her try at etiquette suited to the times. By profession, writer of institutional advertising for Macy's department store, light-verse writer on the side, she is liveliest in razzing those dexterous dopes who figure with such passionless gallantry in the etiquette books of Emily Post and Margery Wilson. On the technical side, she dictates only a bare minimum of ritual. She believes that etiquette should spring from a kind heart; her Golden Rule is "use the head and heart, and let the boiled shirts fall where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Manners | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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