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Word: pasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gazed through the window, watching the snowflakes whirl out of the blackness into the light that radiated from his room, following them as they curved past the panes and out of sight again. Large clots occasionally caught on the glass; began to melt, then dragged downward until they disappeared into a trail of water. Fleece piled up into triangles in the corners of the windowsill, slowly creeping up over the edges of the bottom panes, rounding off the window's squareness. There they hung, shining glazier's points, with their pale faces flattened against the panes, peering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

...gust shook one of the curious triangles from its perch and scattered its particles into the dark, spreading a mist of snow across the lower panes. Then the flakes fell into step again and circled past his eyes as they had before. A big flake flew out of nowhere at the pane near his hand and violently flattened itself against the transparency. It held on desperately, its edges vanishing. Then suddenly it loosened its grip on the smooth surface and catapulted down along a stream of its own moisture. And more, smaller flakes blew out of the night and hung...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

With a rearranged lineup, the wrestling team will swing into action against the Brown grapplers tomorrow at Providence to try to chalk up their second win of the year. In the past two matches, the team has defeated Tufts with a complete sweep, and has lost by one point to a more experienced Princeton team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Team Faces Brown With Many Changed Weights | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

Behind this new interest in the ancient sport of rowing is the installment of a new streamlined crew machine which pushes the water past the stationary oarsmen at the rate of five miles per hour, an increase of three miles per hour, over the old gasoline engine which has put so many former Harvard rowing "greats" into championship form...

Author: By Harry Hammond, | Title: New Tank Draws 90 Oarsmen Daily To Newell for Pre - Season Training | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

During the past six years, bustling Kenneth Collins has continued to get his name and picture in the papers, discussing anything from business conditions (which he usually approved) to women's fashions (which he didn't). Three years ago Mr. Howard left Gimbel's to direct advertising for Montgomery Ward, and three weeks ago Mr. Collins also left Gimbel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Musical Chairs | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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