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Word: pointing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell and Kirkland softballers clash at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon in the most crucial House athletic contest of the year, because the Straus cup and the House championship go to the winner of today's game, so closely placed are the Bellboys and the Deacons in point totals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL, KIRKLAND PLAY TODAY | 5/25/1938 | See Source »

...believe that at least seventy-five per cent of college girls are not virgins. I am not one myself. I want to give you our point of view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seventy-Five Per Cent of All College Girls Are Not Virgins, Declares Modern Co-ed in Article | 5/25/1938 | See Source »

Submitting a series of proposals for remedying inadequacy in House facilities at a time when House facilities at a time when House rejections are at their annual high point, a self-constituted committee of Freshmen met late last week with Dean Hanford, who indicated that he would conduct a comprehensive survey of the practicability of the measures proposed, it was announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Situation Survey Is Planned by Hanford As Freshmen Offer Plans to Cure Inadequacy | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

...been the bitterest of all the battles between Franklin Roosevelt and Big Business and the loser has been the nation: instead of spending their normal $700,000,000 a year in expansion and replacement, the utilities have been getting along on $130,000,000. When renewed Depression jabbed this point home to the President last fall there was a sudden splash of headlines about a utility truce. It failed to come off. Last week there was another splash, and this time there was definite progress in settling both major differences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Death Sentence | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

When Gay MacLaren was a little girl she decided to become an elocutionist after she heard a Chautauqua performer recite The Bobolink. The high point of this performance was a trill: cheeeeeee, prrrrrrr, cheeeeeeeeeeeeee, which Gay practiced so hard her South Dakota neighbors asked her if she didn't know a piece with some other kind of bird in it. But Gay kept on practicing, studied elocution in Minneapolis, finally got her big chance at the New York Chautauqua. Thereafter she followed the Chautauqua circuit, along with chalk-talk artists, bell ringers, evangelists, yodlers, zither performers, magicians, bagpipe players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tent Culture | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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