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Word: nosedive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Red Rust demonstrates that whereas few outsiders know what is happening in Russia, the Russians themselves are beginning to find out. A Soviet satire by V. Kirchon and A. Ouspensky, its hero is a great-nosed fellow called Terekhine who uses his prestige as a revolutionary soldier to bully his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

President Hoover last week had a chance to compare himself with Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Both those great men were mentioned in an open letter to the White House from long-nosed William Randolph Hearst, who said he wanted President Hoover to make ''some reassuring utterance" at this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Action Counts | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Both teams have complied an unenviable record thus far this year, but the Elis rank a shade better on comparative scores. The convincing victory of the Blue Freshmen over their Nassau last Saturday makes them a decided favorite. Harvard has nary a victory to its credit, its closest semblance to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN CLASH WITH FAVORED ELI IN FINALE TODAY | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

Ruthless at clapping alcoholics into asylums, bootleggers into jails, is knobby-fisted General Jalander, Prefect of the half-million Finns in Usimaa Department. Pale-nosed teetotalers received last week with mixed feelings one of His Excellency's pepperiest pronouncements.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Black Jalander | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

The fall upperclass crew season was brought to its conclusion yesterday afternoon when the 150-pound boat, stroked, by R. R. White '32, nosed out that of T. N. Perkins Jr. '31 by a quarter of a length, over the mile course in the basin. Perkins' crew was in second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL CREW SEASON ENDS WITH 150-POUND RACE OVER BASIN | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

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