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Word: miss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look strange to us for a while to see our athletes attired in something closely resembling underwear," Miss Mildred Madden observes shyly in the current issue of the Radcliffe News, but her article goes on to give whole-hearted endorsement to the new gymnasium outfit to be put into effect next fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Athletes Have to Sacrifice Traditional Bloomers---Adopting Pleated Shorts with Zippers | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

Denouncing the old uniform of bloomer and shirt which has served generations of Radcliffe girls as being "somewhat outmoded," Miss Madden, who is style expert on The News, declares that the new attire combines smartness with economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Athletes Have to Sacrifice Traditional Bloomers---Adopting Pleated Shorts with Zippers | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

...Harvard's co-eds will go into battle dressed in maroon from head to knee. Apart from the fact that the H. A. A. is also retaining this color for their uniforms, there seem to be two reasons for this choice. First, maroon looks well "even on red-heads," Miss Madden thinks. And secondly, it makes a wonderful background for the big R awarded for participation in varsity sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Athletes Have to Sacrifice Traditional Bloomers---Adopting Pleated Shorts with Zippers | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

...Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, Diver Marjorie Gestring, other aquatic stars put on an exhibition to raise money for blonde, beauteous Georgia Coleman, onetime (1929-31) U. S. women's diving champion, who for the last six months has been in a Los Angeles hospital ill with paralysis. Two of Miss Coleman 's bathing suits were auctioned off, one to Swimmer Weissmuller for $20. Total amount raised: "more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestined unto everlasting life and others foreordained to everlasting death. And their number is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished." Last week, at the annual Southern Presbyterian General Assembly in Meridian, Miss., this statement came up for discussion. Many a minister defended it, others found it an overstatement which "keeps our ministers constantly on the defensive." The Assembly voted, 151-to-130, to delete the two hard sentences from the confession of faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Presbyterians Delete | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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