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Word: play (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensational streak by trouncing Yale 5 to 2. Walt Sickles, Sophomore hurling star, hung up his fourth win in five games for the Big Red. The Stahlmen have yet to face Cornell in Ithaca, but the Big Red and the Big Green still have a two game series to play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stahlmen Combat Cornell for Lead In Batting Race | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

...Andy. She dedicated programs to shut-ins, plugged firemen's benefits, camps for underprivileged, visited cripples, became radio's No. 1 Benefit Girl. To "expand her prestige as an outstanding American woman" Collins last year arranged a three-a-week noonday broadcast of homely comment, book & play criticism. Sensitive to the rising tide of Broadway patrioteering, Kate last year got Irving Berlin to write God Bless America exclusively for her, sang it week after week until last month, when it was released to other patrioteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kate the Great | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Rockefeller-founded University of Chicago, a student who wanted to play tennis on the university courts could not produce either his tuition card or the 15? fee. Finally, after he signed the register, the attendant doubtfully admitted him. The dimeless tennist: John D.'s grandson, David Rockefeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan, one John Bowie Carter wanted $1,000,000 so he could get started on a "humanitarian play" covering events from 1649 to the 1940 Presidential election. He wired to the New York Daily News: "Will hold up J. P. Morgan's Wall Street headquarters at 11:07 a. m. . . ." Police met him there right on time. In his pocket they found a bag containing six lollypops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...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 »

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