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Word: lorn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they please). Last week at its 32nd annual convention in Atlantic City the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S. and Canada said its final say on the matter. The Union voted overwhelmingly "not to recede one iota" from the Orthodox position on the status of the lorn agunah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No to Agunahs | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Scollay Square, representatives of nearly every nation, reveling in the bracing New England climate. They come and come, from Alaska, from Turkey, and from 33 places situated alphabetically between these two extremes. Numerically Canada heads the list with 48, and the gradient falls away to Palestino's one lone lorn special student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Back Bay Provincialism Unaffected by Age of The Telegraph, Telephone, and Special Student | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Where Sinners Meet" is cast in the house of a millionaire on the Dover Road, England; the master of the house spends his life trying to aid the oppressed and the love lorn. American ideas of the English are surprisingly amusing, and at times highly annoying, but any breath of an English accent is as nectar to the American public and per se assures the picture of success, as is borne out by the reactions of the audience in the present case. So also any joke which the audience does not catch, goes as an extremely subtle Anglicism and draws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...been chosen. Chaste maidens, bad villains, and languishing beauties will be on the stage in this drama which tells of army life in New Mexico in the early eighties. Nixon deTarnowsky '35, a veteran of a similar play given last year, will take the part of a love-lorn maiden, Retta; the villain will be acted by Milton I. Byer '35, who is known as a very wicked man from former roles which he has filled; the leading lady, Sophia, will be portrayed by Lewis J. Affelder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Rio Grande" To Be Given By Rabbit Lads and Maids | 3/13/1934 | See Source »

...When California's Centre Roy Riegels made his notorious run in the wrong direction in the 1929 Rose Bowl game against Georgia Tech, it was Benny Lorn who overtook him, tackled him just short of his own goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gunn, Got, Lum & Lorn | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

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