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Word: palmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...command performances for King Edward VII. By old Mr. Morgan's request, Harry Burleigh sang Calvary at his funeral. Harry Burleigh is proud of all these things. But to St. George's Harry Burleigh's proudest achievement is that he has sung Faure's The Palms on every Palm Sunday for the past 45 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spiritualist | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Anchored by flashy Jim Pender, who won both the Century and the furlong hurdle events, Cornell had clearly won the sprint relay. Don Donahue and George Kroupa of Penn had finished in a blanket drive for second place, and the officials had tentatively awarded the latter the palm...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Big Red Cindermen Nose Out Crimson in Heptagonal | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Because "she thought that Harvard had gone to the dogs" when she heard a rumor that "they had professors who were known radicals," Mrs. Caroline J. Adams of Palm Springs, California, decided not to leave Harvard a $1,000,000 bequest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY OUT $1,000,000 DUE TO 'RADICAL' TEACHERS | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

Almost all of Frost's earlier poems were attempts to make himself more completely known to this womanly presence who was his chosen judge. But never once did his wife give his poems a word of praise, though she knew them like the palm of her hand. Frost's early poems read like invocations of a conscience which, if it left him, would leave him lost-yet whose presence made every day, however perfect, a judgment day. But even these early poems show Frost almost as willing to play hide-&-seek with judgment as to face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Muse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...hands with every member there. His grin and his grip augured well for his regime. "The only question on Rea," wrote the Journal-American's Financial Columnist Leslie Gould, "is why would he leave Honolulu . . . when almost anyone downtown would swap a Stock Exchange seat for a good palm tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Palm Tree to Curb | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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