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Word: second (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officials, foreseeing November rains, feared a late-fall attendance drop, decided there would be more profit in packing two months' business into one. Last week they were getting ready to raze the topless towers of Treasure Island, to liquidate the Exposition that does not have to run a second year to save its face or its bondholders (of whom it has none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tomorrow and 1940 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...lover of Heine, an inveterate parodist and would-be musician, Untermeyer contributed second rate verse and lofty reviews to The Masses, The Seven Arts and The Liberator, only one of the three to survive the War. As superintendent of a jewelry factory in Newark, N. J., Business man Untermeyer invited his 150 astonished employes to unionize, claims he established the first 44-hour week in the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets & Untermeyer | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

HUDSON REJOINS THE HERD-Claude Houghton-Macmillan ($2.50). Convalescent Stephen Hudson drearily, dreamily tries to figure out why Millionaire Otto Steele shot him on second meeting. The fretful reader is apt to regret that it wasn't a clean killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...absence of Mendel, second highest scorer in the New England league last year and sparkplug of the booster first two games this fall, who was on the beneil with water on the knee, was keenly felt. Page, however, played capably in his position at left outside...

Author: By J. C. Robbins jr., | Title: BOOTERS IMPROVE IN 2-0 SHUTOUT OF TECH | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Yardlings made it a double victory by defeating the Tech Freshmen 1 to 0, outplaying them throughout the game. Jim Gleason, Harvard goalie, never touched the ball in the whole first half and only rarely in the second...

Author: By J. C. Robbins jr., | Title: BOOTERS IMPROVE IN 2-0 SHUTOUT OF TECH | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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