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Word: nineteen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twelve minutes to find the subway steps from the train concourse and twelve more underground totalled twenty-four. Then there were the fourteen minutes consumed by the taxi driver in taking the Vagabond from Harvard Square to Smith Halls (obs.) via Shady Hill. Total, thirty-eight minute. Thirty-eight. Nineteen hundred thirty eight, class of. Incredible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/1/1934 | See Source »

...Nineteen-nineteen brings a great gathering of the Warings at The Grove. Dicky and Brad are back from the War. Linda, now 21, rejects Thornton, her War fiancé, then weakens and accepts him. Brad reluctantly decides to give up medicine for business. Dicky involves himself with Ellen, a neurotic. Best friend Joel who has always loved Linda looks on helplessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winning Warings | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...Nineteen per cent of those who voted for Roosevelt in 1932 now vote against him. Thirty-four per cent of those who voted for Hoover in 1932 now vote for Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Policies & Popularity | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...have nothing in common except birthplace rivalry and a few joint members. Both are organizations of youngsters and oldsters who have fun printing small periodicals on their own presses. They call themselves "a. j.'s" (amateur journalists). The N. A. P. A. was formed in Philadelphia in 1876. Nineteen years later, also in Philadelphia, the upstart Amateur Press Association of America was founded. Later that organization prefixed "United" to its name, much to the disgust of the highly professional United Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: a. j.'s | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...Nineteen schools have entered 240 athletes in Class B to fight for the title won by Medford last year. Twenty-seven schools have entered 256 athletes in Class C in an attempt to wrest the crown from Beverly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 60 SCHOOLS TO COMPETE IN 49TH SCHOLASTIC MEET | 5/26/1934 | See Source »

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