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Word: playing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Census to be Mr. Andrews' secretary, soon will be as well known to businessmen as was Hugh Johnson's "Robbie." She and Paul Sifton serve as buffers against importunate callers, coordinate the various sectors of Wages & Hours. An ex-radical and a chronic dramatist (three of his plays appeared on Broadway), Assistant Sifton is working between times on a new play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Cats | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Armistice of 1918 gave free play to one memorable artistic movement-Dada. All perversity and insults to one school of critics, Dada seemed significant to others, who saw in its course from 1916 to 1924 a sensitive revulsion against a bad war and a bad peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Back to Nature | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...little fellow expect to turn the Cornell, Army, and Dartmouth backs in on end sweeps? How could he expect to grab passes from taller defense men? Vag still can't figure out how he does it, but he does, and it makes him feel warm inside to watch Bobby play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

...Elephants' last game against Kirkland was a good example of their improved play. Against a highly favored Deacon eleven. Eliot lost 7-0, after pushing down to the Kirkland goal line only to have the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell, Adams, Eliot Gridmen Play at New Haven Tomorrow in Wind-up Games | 11/17/1938 | See Source »

Dick Lewis, Lowell, and Willard Whitman, Adams, gained the halfback posts. Lewis a strong blocking back, was the tops in line-backing, his 180 pounds aiding materially to give him the stamina to play entire games. Whitman is the outstanding passer, his slants to Bob Akerson an Adams teammate, proving the vital factor in the defeat of Kirkland by the Coasters...

Author: By J. PHILIP Lyford, | Title: Kirkland, Lowell, Adams, Dudley Put Two on Crimson 'All' Football Team; Bob Prario Named Captain and Quarterback | 11/17/1938 | See Source »

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