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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then he saw the startled look on the legislators' faces. "I'm getting on ticklish ground," he laughed. "I'm for everybody. I want to help the farmers, the teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Heil Heil | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Crooner Abdul-Wahab will take no less than $400 for singing in the flesh-a fee the Italians never saw their way to giving him. On the British program, besides a coterie of other Arabic talent, broadminded Crooner Abdul-Wahab in person cleared his voice, began his popular warbling, sang in Arabic an "ode to Shakespeare." His fee for helping British imperialism along: $625 an appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crooner | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Year's Day 1929, a confused young man named Roy Riegels picked up a fumbled football, ran 75 yards with it-in the wrong direction. Some 70,000 pairs of eyes saw him do it, and millions of ears at radios heard that Roy Riegels, captain-elect of the University of California football team, had presented the Rose Bowl game to Georgia Tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tenth Anniversary | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Eliot gained its first victory of the year by beating Dudley 22 to 20 in a see-saw game. Eliot was ahead at the half by one point but the Commuters came back to lead at the end of the third quarter by five points. Then Bob Westheimer came into the game to score the winning goals for the Elephants. David Burt was the high scorer with ten points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADAMS, KIRKLAND LEAD IN HOUSE BASKETBALL | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

Professor Sorokin saw no need of making the course a compulsory one similar to English A, because "a really practical course will command attendance without any compulsion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marital-Minded Students Sign Petition For "Practical Sociological Course" | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

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