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Word: quarter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tufts held the game scoreless in the first period. Howard Mendel turned the tide soon after the start of the second quarter with a rocket from the wing. Witkins placed the second goal, In the third quarter, a neatly executed pass by Edgar resulted in Page relaying the ball past Breen for Harvard's third goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Soccer Eleven Triumphs Over Tufts, 5-0, in Opening New England League Game---Hardenberg Excels for Crimson | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...abolition of traffic lights, which most safety experts agree are necessary in heavy traffic, Dr. Fabing called attention to several patented, non-confusing systems. His recommendation: a clock-dial light with a rotating hand swinging from a green section at the top to a yellow caution light at the quarter-hour position, to a red section at the bottom, to another yellow caution light at the three-quarter-hour position- the hand always showing by its position how much green or red time remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Traffic Light Neurosis | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Doll-like, repulsively big-nosed, black-bearded and bespectacled, Lautrec loved circuses, dance halls, race tracks. Several brothels came to regard him as a kind of mascot. His home and native element was Montmartre. Biographer Mack has tried conscientiously but has failed to reanimate this legendary quarter. He ploughs without inspiration through genealogies of the successive owners of peripheral café-concerts where Lautrec occasionally had a drink. It is interesting to learn that Jane Avril, the delicate dancer of the Moulin Rouge whose skull-like face Lautrec loved to draw, still lives and remembers him. Mr. Mack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Life of Lautrec | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Foster counted again a few moments later when he downed a kickoff in the Commuter end zone, Moore put the cover on with an 80 yard runback of an interception. The offense of neither team was outstanding until the last quarter, when Bullet Joe Kaufman ripped through the Kirkland line for goodsized gains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP, KIRKLAND WIN OVER DUNSTER, DUDLEY | 10/8/1938 | See Source »

...Will Manager Joe McCarthy, the only man who has ever managed both a National and American League pennant winner, become the first to win three World Series in a row? Will the Chicagoans succumb meekly, as they did not long ago to the same Yankees, in four games? One-quarter of these questions will be answered on Wrigley Field today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CATCHING 1860 TODAY | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

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