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Word: righting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest disappointments to Crimson-Blue followers were Jim Lightbody, who had to be satisfied with a third in the 440, and sprinter Charley Smith. Smith pulled a muscle in his right leg while he was leading the pack in the 100 and dropped all the way to fourth at the finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew's Henley Regatta Victory Stands Out Among Summer's Events; Crimson-Blue Track Squad Loses | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

There were no other changes in the A team yesterday, although Moses Hallett substituted for the absent Healey at right tackle. Vern Miller was at the other tackle; Lowry and Ernie Sargeant, guards; Burgy Ayres, center; Bill Coleman, quarterback; Torbie Macdonald and Joe Gardella, halfbacks; and Charley Spreyer, fullback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARLOW STRESSES PRECISION, SPEED IN PRACTICE SESSION | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

...Nazi Germany tuning in on foreign broadcasts has always been frowned on; for the last three weeks it has been treason. But right up to zero hour German listeners to U. S. short-wave stations kept writing in, asking for pictures of Benny Goodman, requesting that their names be read over the air. Last week, to protect innocent German necks, NBC's international short-wave division discontinued its weekly German Mail Bag program, halted the flow of pictures of Benny Goodman to Reich homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At Home & Abroad | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Worried NBC and MBS cut war-news schedules drastically, cut off foreign commentators entirely. But CBS, it appeared, had not yet caught the jitters, stayed on the job hoping eventually to get right to the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jitters | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...spent the summer exchange-preaching in Manhattan hastened to do their British bit. Said Rev. Dr. Donald Davidson, Bournemouth Presbyterian: "This dictator will find that he has not only France and England to reckon with but our Lord as well. God made the world and has every right to control it. If He did not take action in what we have seen at the present time, we would think He was indifferent." Dr. Frederick William Norwood, onetime pastor of London's City Temple, reproached the U. S.: "You are a little too big to cover yourself with sleek neutrality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gott Sei Mit Uns | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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