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Word: rooke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LOVERS' ATTENDANCE WE HAD OVERFLOW ATTENDANCE OF 2,200. DR. SHAPLEY DID NOT LOSE HIS SLIDES IN CINCINNATI AND DID NOT HAVE TO FILL IN HIS STAR LECTURE WITH LECTURE ON ANTS BUT GAVE HIS ANT LECTURE TO SPECIAL AUDIENCE AT QUEEN CITY CLUB LUNCHEON. AT WORLD FAMOUS ROOK-WOOD POTTERY DR. SHAPLEY DESIGNED AND SIGNED ASTRONOMICAL ASH TRAY FOR HIMSELF AND MEMBERS. CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY SAW, ACCORDING TO SIZE, AMERICA'S OLDEST TELESCOPE. IN SHORT, CINCINNATI WITH HALF OF DETROIT'S POPULATION HAD ELEVEN TIMES THE ATTENDANCE AT SHAPLEY LECTURE, BUT OF COURSE CINCINNATI HAS MORE CULTURE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

HARVARD NORTHEASTERN Adzigian, 3b lf., Habeshian Prouty, lf 3b, Wright Bilodeau, ss c, Wright Owen, 2b cf, McNamara (Capt.) Gibbs, cf lb, Mackiernan Colwell, lb rf, Meehan Tittman, rf ss, Norinkavich Maguire (Capt.), c 2b, McDonald Ingalls, p p, Rook Starting time: 4 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INGALLS ON MOUND AS VARSITY OPENS SCHEDULE AT HOME | 4/9/1936 | See Source »

Both teams are looking forward to profitable seasons. Both profess uncertainty in the same position, the box. Ed Ingalls, who showed ability on the Southern trip, will start on the mound for the Crimson, with Gus Rook, also a Sophomore working against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INGALLS ON MOUND AS VARSITY OPENS SCHEDULE AT HOME | 4/9/1936 | See Source »

...Because a rook upset his milk pail, St. Kevin condemned all rooks to be "sad, cawing and having the law of one another for very dismalness." But St. Kevin was far from cruel. When a blackbird laid an egg in his hand, he held it steady until it hatched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beasts & Saints | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Hueffer-his father was German-and changed it in 1919 for post-War reasons.) After a term of editing the English Review which he had founded in 1908, Ford retired to a tumbledown country cottage to live by writing and raising vegetables. He acquired a goat, a drake, a rook, a Blue Angora cat, and eventually two very large sows. In spite of his friendship with John Galsworthy and his admiration for George Moore, England finally became too depressing; he expatriated himself to Paris. There, with Ernest Hemingway as his sanest subeditor, the encouragement of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amiable Gossip | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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