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Word: returning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...developments gave prominence to the Spanish question. First, a conference between Claude G. Bowers, U. S. Ambassador to Loyalist Spain, and Undersecretary of State Summer Welles, and secondly, doubtful but persistent reports that Franco's regime considers asking the return of Puerto Rice, former Spanish possession now held by the United States...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/11/1939 | See Source »

...income should be a student's goal, and that a job is not worth-while because it pays $20 a week show how a liberal education can miss fire. These seniors who want to measure the worth of a job, or of a career by the cash return have forgotten King Midas who proved centuries ago that wealth is no key to happiness. . . --Brown Daily Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 3/11/1939 | See Source »

...epileptic fit in the Lowell House Common Room. He was sent down to Stillman where he decided that Professor Coolidge and his flock had poisoned him. As an antidote, he drank a bottle of ink. At this point, Lowell House threw in the rag and persuaded Saradjeff to return to his native land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...advantage of my system lies in that when I am off my game, I can lay back at the base line and just return the shots. When a player like Vines or Budge loses his stride for a day or so, there is nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fred Perry Asserts College Is Place To Discover Fundamentals of Tennis | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

Currently the Intercoastal Steamship Freight Association, organized in 1936, is in a frightful row because a nonmember, Shepard Steamship Co., which hauls lumber to the Atlantic Coast, undercuts conference rates to attract return freight rather than send its ships back in ballast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cutthroat | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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