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Word: mentioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, and the ore dumped into the pockets by opening the hopper bottoms of the cars. The ore goes, whenever a freighter is ready for it, from the pockets into the hold via steel spouts hinged to the sides of the dock. Cardumpers such as you mention are, however, used to load coal into these same freighters at lower lake ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...article that my "strong right arm" was scorned. I do not care, nor would I mention it but for the fact that it conveys an erroneous impression of the game. Actually the difference in the size of my left and right arm is so slight as to be scarcely noticeable. Therefore it would seem that the casual player would run little danger of losing his muscular symmetry in the pursuit of tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Honorable Mention in the contest went to Frederick E. Pamp '39 who wrote his essay on John Bunyan's "Grace Abounding," and also to James P. O'Donnell '39, for a paper titled "Dichtung und Waharheit in Shakespere's Sonnets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chapman Wins $50 Prize In '39 Tutorial Essay Contest | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Piana dia Greci--on a mountain top and miles from nowhere it seemed--and I was told by a professor from Oxford, whose name I think it will be best not to mention, that they spoke modern Greek in the village; and from other sources, less scholarly but more accurate, that the women there have a reputation for their beauty and the men for their great self assurance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Oxford Letter | 4/28/1937 | See Source »

...readers of Wheel of Fortune might find it hard to imagine how such a strictly non-political novel could be considered out of line, even in such a rectilinear country as Duceland. But, though the book was not suppressed, the Italian press gave it not a single mention. Reason: The ruler of Rome's hive does not approve of such Roman drones as Moravia writes about, prefers to ignore their existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As Some Romans Do | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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