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Word: raye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contention of Ray Dumont, president of the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress, that arbiters should demand and get respect from the fans. The best way to do this, Dumont contends, is to eliminate any duties that "lower" them in the eyes of fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...cars and vociferously tooting taxis, the out-of-town athletes must trudge, bag in hand, through the baffling intricacies of Boston's subway system before finally reaching their destination. All this would be changed if Harvard had a dormitory unit which could house the visiting warriors, such as the Ray Tompkins House at Yale, or the Davis Field House at Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD HOSPITALITY | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...engaging hero, red-headed Ray Talcott, son of an Illinois storekeeper, was only 13 when he headed West. He was equipped with a fish line, jackknife, agate shooter, $13, a strong will not to return until he was big enough to thrash his browbeating father. His adventures along the way might have been told by Mark Twain -capture by a mean reward-hunter, whose precocious daughter petted him, stole his $13; escape and recapture and escape again; apprenticeship to a kindly windbag who dyed Ray's hair black, stained his face, billed him in his medicine show as Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Western | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...main story concerns Ray's life on the range-punching cows with such picturesque partners as Absolute Jones, Greasy Oscar, Springtime, hunting with the Piegan Indians, getting mixed up in an Indian war. It is cowboys-&-Indians romance plus a heroine. But Author Boyd's cowboys, Indians, adventures, "cussing ladies," homesteaders, plains and hills are as real as oldtime calico, make the Wild West almost as gripping for grownups as it once was in the dime novels of one's youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Western | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Squeezed into a small hall in the huge Park Square Building off Arlington Street, the brand new Telepix theatre presents a shower of short features to the public in ultra-modern and ultra-comfortable surroundings. Thus far, however, the "rocking chair comfort" and the sterilized air with ultra-violet ray generators are greater attractions than the uneven assortment of newsreels, travelogues and cartoons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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