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Word: owens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four Freshmen saved a negro from death at the hands of attackers last Saturday night. Passing by the alley connecting Winter and Summer Streets at about five minutes after twelve on their way from the theatre to the subway station, George C. Cunningham '42, George M. Flanagan '42, Owen W. Kite '42, and Montgomery M. Smith '42 heard sounds of a scuffle and decided to investigate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEGRO SAVED FROM FATAL BEATING BY 4 FRESHMEN | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Colonel Harrington wanted it clearly understood that Harry Hopkins had not "helped out" in his selection of Relief's No. 2 man, to replace Mr. Hopkins' lanky, idealistic, foot-in-mouth friend, Aubrey Williams (now sidetracked to the Youth Administration). Harrington's own choice was Howard Owen Hunter, a dark, lean, hard-hitting Southerner, who since 1933 has had charge of all Federal relief in 13 Midwest States (WPA's Region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Third H | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Harvard had control of the puck throughout the latter part of the period, and Owen Lightstone broke into the scoring column by whipping the puck past McCauley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improved Freshman Hockey Sextet Overwhelms Cambridge Latin 6 to 2 | 1/12/1939 | See Source »

...homecomers. Among them: 25-year-old Brigade Commissar (political instructor) John Gates from Youngstown, Ohio; Sergeant Gerald Cook, office boy for the pinko Nation; Lieut. Manny Lancer, formerly of the Workers Alliance; Sergeant Thomas Page, a Manhattan Negro (wounded on the Ebro front): an lowan who became Captain Owen Smith; 20-year-old Nurse Rose Waxman of Manhattan. Saddest of the heroes was a lad whose parents met him at the dock, snatched off his purple military beret, hopped up & down on it, indignantly marched him home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boys from Brunete | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...deep drifts of artificial snow, cold storage poultry, painfully quaint mannerisms and hideously false joviality which load this tender fable, certain genuine bits stand out by contrast. One is Reginald Owen's well modulated performance as Scrooge, which should long remain a model for enthusiastic neophyte actors who essay this role in high-school productions of the same work. Another is the reading of the nerve-racking part of Tiny Tim by eleven-year-old Terry Kilburn, who almost manages to make his notorious curtain line (''God bless us every one") seem warranted under the circumstances. Least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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