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Word: raggedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of these first editions, of which only one or two copies have turned up, are now the rarest U. S. books: The Wonder fid Wizard of Oz (1900), Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick (1868), Little Prudy (1864), The Wide, Wide World (1851), Elsie Dinsmore (1867). A complete collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Loved Juveniles | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

The Jayvees, however face the most difficult encounter of the year. Out-rowed by Navy and Syracuse, stroke Bill Rowe's crew meets a powerful Eli outfit which is almost as good as the Yale Varsity. The Crimson eight has been noticeably ragged in its workouts at Red Top.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Great Crews Clash at New London Friday Evening | 6/22/1938 | See Source »

At number three blade is Dud Talbot who was shifted at the eleventh hour last year to race against Yale. He ends the six-foot-three block which extends from the number seven to three position. John Richards '40 is at the two oar and while still a bit ragged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

Your D. A. R. story was a darb. As one who, although descended from revolutionary warriors, has always enjoyed laughing at this aristocratic organization I can't thank you enough. Ever since I read Rabble in Arms and Drums Along the Mohawk I've been unable to reconcile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile last week there slipped completely out of Leftist Spain and over into France three ragged, mud-bespattered Abies & Georgies whose shoes were coming to pieces and who appeared half-starved. The most communicative of these was John Gordon Honeycombe, 37, of Los Angeles, a former U. S. seaman born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Abies & Georgies | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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