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Word: partings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Believe me, boys, a good reason for this inconsistency on the part of Americans would certainly help me out of an embarrassing situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Colwell Charles R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers, said that all cases of the fraud were reported by students, for the most part in the Law School, who were living not in the Yard or in Houses but in boarding houses or apartments. Until "Geer" is known to be operating within University precincts, trespassing, the racket is exclusively a Cambridge police problem. Colonel Apted provided the town inspectors with a photograph of the swindler to help them in tracing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOWN POLICE SEEK "GOODS SALESMAN" | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

...More territory" is of course merely representative of power on a world scale; the U.S. would still not fight, or even impose an economic embargo, to prevent Italian acquisition of Tunis. Still, the poll means that Americans have finally realized that their nation is a part of the world; that Britain, long the strategically dominating factor in Europe and the first line of defense for America's isolationism, no longer holds that position; that Berlin is closer--several days closer, by steamship--to Rio de Janiero than is New York; and that, as the President yesterday said, "democracies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA AND THE WORLD--1939 VERSION | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

Coach Wes Fesler's Varsity five has not been idle during the last part of the Christmas vacation although it has not had any regular games. The Crimson cagers reported for practice Monday, and since then they have engaged in two sessions daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FESLER FIVE WORK ON FAST BREAKING GAME | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

...Florida, many another hapless vessel, were toasting their shins in a U. S. Liner's galley. Landing in Manhattan just in time to board the departing Cunarder Ausonia for Halifax, they got back home for a Christmas in which wide-awake U. S. seamanship played a far greater part than Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Again, U. S. Lines | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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