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Word: schoolgirl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Questioned upon the cancellation, Miss Charlotte Bradley, captain of the schoolgirl net-wielders admitted keen disappointment on the part of the student body, but hoped that the Crimson would come just the same, substituting baseball bats for their sticks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEAVER GIRLS CHALLENGE '40 ON DIAMOND; SPURN LACROSSE | 5/27/1937 | See Source »

...other picture is "Ready Willing, and Able". The title is descriptive of Miss Ruby Keeler's position, for she's just a schoolgirl, desperate to play on Broadway, who attains her end by pretending to be a famous English star. She's so ready, so willing, and so very able that she wins both her way to fame and the producer's heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: *The Moviegoer* | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

...steady drizzle. They threw a gay pattern on the white front of a fine gabled house. In the living room of the house, where another gaily lighted tree stood, 10-year-old Charles Mattson, his 16-year-old brother Billy, his 14-year-old sister Muriel and her schoolgirl chum from Seattle played and talked as they waited for Dr. & Mrs. William Wrhitlock Mattson to return from a wedding reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tacoma Snatch | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Netherlands' girl athletes have not yet outclassed the U. S. in events which require grace as well as brawn. Bright blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill last week retained her title at platform diving. Springboard diving championship went to Marjorie Gestring, 13-year-old Los Angeles schoolgirl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Games (Concl'd) | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...into the No. 1 female exhibition bowler. There was robust Marie Warmbier who, with an average of nearly 200 in three years of exhibition bowling, did poorly by sacrificing accuracy for speed in the Omaha tournament. There was freckled Mary Jane ("Little Marie") Huber, 15-year-old schoolgirl, a hopeless cripple until she was 10, who handled the ball like a grape fruit, outscored her coach, Marie Warmbier. Pretty, buxom Ella Burmeister, a grocery clerk, so excited one male spectator with her nine-game total of 1,683 that he fell off his high perch, broke his ankle. Marge Slogar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Congress Inc. | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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