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Word: miss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radcliffe has given up bowling as an official sport this year but this unofficial foursome headed by Radcliffe's bowling champion, Miss Grace Bennett, are already set to play any representative quartet from Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Bowlers Say They Have the Stuff to Down Any Harvard Pin Men---Miss Grace Bennett Bowls Mean 160 | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...thing I insist on; I always do my own directing. Aside from that you may have a free hand. I tell you this show is terrific, sure-fire. It's a superb mixture of pathos and comedy. You can't miss and I am sending it to you first because I know you can tell the real thing when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

Congressional growling at Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins last week culminated in a sharp, open bark. Republican J. Parnell Thomas, of Allendale, N. J. offered a resolution in the House instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether Miss Perkins should be impeached for failure to deport radical Labor Leader Harry Bridges, alleged Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miss Perkins Accused | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...since 1932, when Representative Wright Patman attacked Andrew Mellon, has such a resolution been seen in Congress. Not since the Senate voted that President Coolidge should fire Secretary of the Navy Denby for his part in the oil scandals has one been adopted. Unlike Secretary Denby, who resigned, Miss Perkins, who knew she would not be impeached, welcomed a showdown. She repeated what she and her colleagues have said all along: that the only ground on which Harry Bridges might be deported is that he belongs to the Communist Party, which he denies and which has not been established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miss Perkins Accused | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Quick to deny any part in this attack on Miss Perkins, was her loudest critic, Representative Martin Dies* of Texas. Said he: "I wouldn't go so far as to accuse the Secretary of high crimes and misdemeanors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miss Perkins Accused | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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