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Word: raggedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following an hour of the usual routine work on fundamentals, team A lined up on its own 30-yard line against the Seconds. Crickard, whose return to Harvard was doubtful till two weeks ago, showed some of his old time form in gaining the opening first down against some hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY TEAMS IN OPENING SCRIMMAGE | 9/21/1932 | See Source »

Rubens, not an eye-witness of the Cuban fighting, gives a full, extremely pro-Cuban account of it, compares it favorably with the U. S. War of Independence. According to his figures, the Spanish army finally numbered 200,000 regulars, but it could never come to grips with the ragged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Today's Tyrant | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

In Iowa last week a thousand shiftless, debt-ridden farmers, many of them with no underwear beneath their ragged blue overalls, extended their strike for higher produce prices from Sioux City to Council Bluffs, across the Missouri River from busy Omaha. On seven highways leading into town they used placards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Stomach Strike (Cont'd) | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

Young Chang followed Wang out two days later, handed over his control to two committees, one political, one financial. It was a move that Peiping observers have been expecting for nearly two years. Well meaning, sickly, dope-taking Young Chang had never the influence or the ability of his sly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wang & Chang Out | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

The Capitol plaza was No Man's Land last week. Some 700 ragged, hungry veterans arrived from the Pacific Coast to join the Bonus Expeditionary Force, to besiege Congress for immediate cashing of their adjusted service certificates. At their head was a thin, leathery roofer from Los Angeles named Roy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: No Man's Land | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

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