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Word: robin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best pictures of 1938, as selected by Film Daily's annual poll of 536 newspaper, syndicate and magazine critics: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; You Can't Take It with You; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Boys Town; Marie Antoinette; In Old Chicago; The Adventures of Robin Hood; The Citadel; Love Finds Andy Hardy; Hurricane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Wart also encounters a witch, a giant who apparently represents 20th-century totalitarianism, and Robin Hood, whose real name, according to White, was Robin Wood. (The W slurred off, and recent highbrow scholars, thinking 'ood a Cockney abbreviation, added H.) After all his adventures the Wart still has strength enough to pull the legendary magic sword out of the anvil, win the right to be King Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anachronistic Education | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...league; 3) the team that wins the most games at season's end will be awarded the National Hockey League championship without more ado, but the "world championship" will be awarded as heretofore to the winner of the post-season Stanley Cup play-offs-a complicated round robin in which six of the seven teams will compete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, presided at the contest, sponsored by the University Debating Council, the Student Union, and the Council of Government Concentrators. Robin Scully '40 and Stanley O. Beren '41 spoke for Harvard, while the Columbia speakers were Hilery Holmes and Frank Snepp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS FIGHT OVER FACTIONAL LIBERALISM | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

...stands out among the rest in the center position as one of the best ball handlers on the team. Most promising of the new material is Edgar, only a Sophomore, who does a good job at left half. Phillips, on the right, is now battling for his position with Robin Scully. The latter started against M.I.T. and has a chance to keep the post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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