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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardest job on Coach Stubbs' hands right now is to name the man who will be in the net at the opening whistle. The choice lies between Ellis, Draper, Hale, S. Putnam, and Wendell, but it seems that Ellis is the logical man right now because of his experience. At defense one veteran and a Sophomore. Garrison and Cunningham, have teamed up the best so far but it is very likely that Garrison and Batchelder will be the starting due. The starting forward line will also be experienced with the starting trio practically certain to be chosen from among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STARTING SEXTET STILL A MYSTERY AS B.U. TILT NEARS | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

Four hundred million Chinamen seemed to be wrong last week, or at least totally incapable of setting right the affairs of their country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 400 Million Humiliations | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Died. Robert Reid, 67, the artist who painted the murals in the Library of Congress, Massachusetts State House in Boston, San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts; at a sanitarium in Clifton Springs, N. Y., whither he had gone after his right arm became paralyzed (1927); of a broken hip and pneumonia. Having taught himself to paint with his left hand, last spring he exhibited two pictures at the National Academy of Design (Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Shore, L. I., William Leach, hunter, rested his gun on the floor of an automobile, the barrel under his armpit. His dog placed its paw on the trigger, fired a charge into Leach's shoulder, fracturing his right collar bone and shoulder blade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...miles a season. Long distance champion is the Arctic tern, which wings some 20,000 miles per season, nesting in the Arctic, wintering in the Antarctic. Chief Redington declared that the number of migratory game birds is fast dwindling in the U. S. Every citizen has a right to kill them in season (some states allow 25 such killings a day). Modern hunters use modern mass-destruction methods, such as automatic and repeating shotguns, live decoys, baited ducking grounds. Ducks die by the million from improper refuges like the Bear River marshes near Great Salt Lake, Utah, where alkali permeates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Game Gossip | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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