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Word: rates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number six player is rather difficult to predict, for there is quite a battle going on for it. In fact, nine inetmen rate about even, including Stuart Wyeth, Elwood Henneman, Andy Page, Jim Arensberg Oliver Bolton, Art Brown, Don Gordon, Dick Grandin, and Adrian Malone. Wyeth, Henneman, and Page have all played at this position in at least one match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

What the course lacks most is unity. Each instructor charges at his favorite rate of speed into the pile of books to be covered, and each stresses what seems to him to be important. The result is that students in different sections often cover different amounts of work and always get different slants on the subject. It is unfortunate that the reactions of the students vary as much as they do, depending on their luck in instructors and personnel of sections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOP WORN | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

LOEW'S STATE--Night Must Fall: 11:25, 2:50, 6:25, 10:00. Good Old Soak: 11:15, 1:30, 5:05, 8:40. Former a first rate thriller, latter owes its entertainment to contrast. An excellent program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

LOEW'S STATE -- Night Must Fall: 11:15, 2:50, 6:25, 10:00. Good Old Soak: 11:15, 1:30, 5:05, 8:40. Former a first rate thriller, latter owes its entertainment to contrast. An excellent program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/13/1937 | See Source »

Bogen knew their monopoly could not last, so while business was still good he sold his interest to Tootsie, started his own dress business. His partners, both lured away from other firms, were a crack salesman and a first-rate designer, Meyer Babushkin. As soon as he had picked the salesman's brains, Bogen froze him out. Thanks to Babushkin's ability and Bogen's shrewdness, the money rolled in. Meantime Bogen's mother began to worry about him, tried to settle him down by making a match with a solid, sensible Jewish girl. Bogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smart Guy | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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