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Word: motioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rotunda, the Class of 1936 had its French, German and Latin tables where men could converse during the meals in the particular language in which they were interested. The Large Dining Room was the scene of last year's Freshman entertainment, Freshman Smoker and Freshman Jubilee. Piano recitals and motion picture shows were given in the living room downstairs. In the upstairs living room, at the far end of the hall, a series of informal talks by prominent professors on topics of current interest was sponsored by last year's Union Committee. It was in this room that Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Functions as Center of Social Life for 1937 Described by Graduate | 9/22/1933 | See Source »

Twenty-three years ago, a hunting companion shot off Clarence Charest's right arm. Forced to give up his favorite game, baseball, he took up tennis. When serving, he holds the ball in his hand, throws it up with the same motion of his arm that carries the racquet back, whacks it smartly with an efficient tackhammer motion. He keeps a second ball in his pocket, a third on the ground back of baseline. He rarely needs the second ball. Now 50, an able Washington lawyer, he won the Veterans' Championship for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Forest Hills | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...Washington when his man Emil Hurja (pronounced Hur-ya.) took over a desk in the Public Works Administration. It was all done so smoothly and tactfully that Public Works Administrator Ickes, who is also Secretary of the Interior, thought that he had taken Mr. Hurja in on his own motion. Smart Jim Farley sat back and let him continue to think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Peaceful Penetration | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...Playgoer is a regular feature of the Crimson, appearing twice a week with reviews of plays and motion pictures...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/1/1933 | See Source »

There is no doubt that as far as some plays are concerned, Boston is cruel, very cruel. But for Pulitzer Prize winners, motion pictures, wrestling bouts and champion hockey the Hub is the Town of Towns...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/1/1933 | See Source »

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