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Word: maine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mosquito. When an opponent praised him for his eloquence, he retorted: "Just liquid vowels." Ambitious, he won a big radio audience outside Illinois when his 1936 Roosevelt talks proved so successful that he was put on a national network. Smith on Smith: "The Town Crier of America's Main Street"; "an ignorant man and a philosopher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...then gradually encircle it. Last week, a Japanese column tightened the net around the capital by capturing strategic Hwangchwan, north of the Yangtze. Another column captured one of a series of river booms at Wusueh, 100 miles down the river from Hankow. Meanwhile, Japanese aviators bombed away at their main objective, the Canton-Hankow Railway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Life Line | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Hygiene Building--home of the University health and Freshman exercise offices. Indoor Athletic Building--main gymnasium and indoor sport auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE NAVIGATION SET FORTH IN EASY LESSONS | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...Robinson in "I Am the Law", one of a series of current pictures revolving about the career of Prosecutor Thomas Dewey. Relief of a sort to the rat-tat-tat of the Robinson film is provided by Joe E. Brown in the co-feature, "The Gladiator", which also includes Main Mountain Dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

This year's principal innovation has been the mirrors installed back of the blocking dummies on the south end of the practice field. Their main use so far has been in teaching faking...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Varsity Football Team Starts Third Week of Practice on Soldiers Field | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

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