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Word: munro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight the Harvard team moves on for a game with Toronto there. QUEENS HARVARD Poupore, f. f., Harding Williamson, f. f., Mechem Munro, c. c., Patrick Miller, d. d., Hicks McGinnis, d. d., Emerson McEwen, g. g., Johnson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoopmen Win Thriller From Cornell As Sextet Loses | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

...September 11, 1936, a boyish-looking ex-lightweight champion of Harvard named Munro Leaf published a 64-page children's book called Ferdinand. It was the tale of a Spanish bull that refused to fight, and Author Leaf had written it in one afternoon. Ferdinand sold only 13,736 copies the first year. Then it really began to go. By last week it had sold 90,000 copies; Author Leaf and Illustrator Robert Lawson had made about $10,000 in royalties ; Walt Disney had purchased Ferdinand for a Silly Symphony; letters were pouring in accusing Ferdinand of Red, Fascist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Children's Favorite | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...York City Children's Court. Costing about $390, the full library contains 19 fairy stories, 81 adventure tales, 85 biographies of human and animal heroes, miscellaneous books on civics, history, hobbies, religion, etiquette. The list contains such old standbys as Alice in Wonderland, such new ones as Munro Leaf's sensational best-selling Ferdinand, expurgated versions of Mother Goose and Grimm's Fairy Tales, omits such scary items as the Russian Fairy Tales, Slovenly Peter. For delinquents "above average intelligence" in the "Grades 9-12" group is included James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Typical title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Delinquents' Library | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Springfield's booters downed the Harvard Varsity soccer eleven 2-0 on a rain swept Business School Field Saturday to keep their unbeaten record intact. Munro scored both goals for the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRINGFIELD BOOTERS DEFEAT VARSITY 2-0 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Harvard took the lead at the beginning against a heavily favored Spring field eleven, but early in the second period Munro, of Springfield, took a corner kick on his head and popped it into the net. Thereafter Springfield held the edge in the game, scoring a second goal in the fourth period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRINGFIELD BOOTERS DEFEAT VARSITY 2-0 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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