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Word: membered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is more to a great sport than just score and the won-and-lost column. The vast majority of Harvard students are not discouraged with their team, they are proud of it. If Coach Harlow and every member of his squad realize this, perhaps their work this week will be just a little easier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT IN TRIUMPH, BUT FLASHING | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...postmaster and chief Republican little-wig, Dewey Short was named for the hero of the contemporary battle of Manila Bay. He went to work as a straw-hatted, barefoot youngster delivering ice and baggage by mulecart to pay for his education. Perhaps the most, if not the best, educated member of the House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer as a Methodist minister. His itch for politics took effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...received a copy . . . and that was the first I heard about it," said Architect John A. Holabird. Only committee member who admitted working on The Truth was Chairman John T. Pirie, president of State Street's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Starchy Mr. Pirie could not explain why his fellow members had not seen the report, snapped: "Simply an oversight-somebody bungled." Next day The Truth was withdrawn from circulation as mysteriously as it had been issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Truth & Consequences | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Flying Buttress of Peace. The House of Chamberlain snipped and whacked away in London making shoes for 130 years. Their babes were suckled and their old folk died in bed above their shoemaking or "cordwaining" * shop. The Prime Minister today is an honorary member of the Cordwainers' Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What Price Peace? | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...beat all the records of Baron Munchausen. . . . For a long time he has not made any aviation records and as a flier he does not represent anything worth while. . . . The few flights which he is now making in his little plane are now performed in this country by any member of the Aviation Club, any peasant, worker or student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Explains Everything! | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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