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Word: mad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Moscow restaurants and on streetcars Soviet citizens could be heard remarking to each other with guffaws, "This Finn has gone mad. He is threatening to hurl a nation of 3,000,000 people against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bitter Pills | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard play. Spreyer, George Heiden, and later Fran Lee ripped through the now sieve-like Princeton line. After Gene Lovett intercepted an Allerdice pass in the second period, Lee broke away for a 47-yard touchdown dash, and although Frazier Curtis failed to convert, Harvard stands continued their mad milling...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Rejuvenated Squad Shows Improvement In Dropping Close Contest to Bengals | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...succeeded in getting through the milling mob. For a minute, the Vagabond was afraid that he had lost him, but he soon regained the musty scent. Vag, following hot on the trail, just caught a glimpse of him, dashing into the protective spaciousness of Claverly. Vag broke into a mad run and flung himself into the hall just in time to see a tiny door at the end of the hall being quickly shut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...Flying on his side at the end of one mad dive, he almost intercepted an Army lorry which was moving innocently along the road. If, later on in the war, you read about a British ace whose name begins with L, it will probably be this young man. His own comrades, who themselves have qualified for this crack squadron, say he is the fanciest aviator in the R. A. F. and we believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Bearskins at Home | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Hopping mad, Bill Cunningham went back to the office to write a blistering story about Stefansson. On the way, his wife handed him some sheets of paper. It was the interview, taken down in shorthand behind the explorer's back. Bill had not known his wife could take shorthand, because he had never met her (except for a few minutes before a football game) until the day they were married. He had called her by long-distance telephone at her home in Attleboro, Mass., to transact some other business, ended by asking her to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ill-tempered Clavichord | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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