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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mask would follow on its heels. Current wars are daily proving that bombing raids only serve to strengthen the morale they attempt to crush and that the enemy's armies, not his cities, are war objectives. The next Great War may be greater in scope than history has ever seen, but it will be won, like all the wars of history, by the infantry. And civilization will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMA VIRUMQUE | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

Copeland, Kittredge, Lake and now Lowest. They are names that every schoolboy knows, men who were only yesterday seen in the Yard, men with little green bags and little eccentricities of dress and speech, men whom undergraduates knew as men, but to the class that enters in the fall, and for many years to come, they will just be "authorities" with which to pad a bibliography. Their books can be brought in Boston or Bombay; they themselves are no longer the unique offering of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT WITHOUT HEIRS | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

Many Californians will never forget the thrill they experienced when Jockey Adams rode six winners in a row (five of them long shots) at Bay Meadows one afternoon last spring-a feat that only seven U. S. jockeys have ever accomplished. Others who had seen him break a leg during a race at Del Mar last summer, marveled at his ability to be out in front again after being dismounted for two months. A barrel-chested pee-wee (4 ft. 8 in.) who learned to ride on the Western "bush"' tracks (county fairs), still lives in a trailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jockey Race | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Brother Rat" and "Ferdinand the Bull" are currently fighting for honors at the University, with "Torchy Gets Her Man" a poor third. For those who have not seen "Brother Rat" on the stage, the screen version is top notch entertainment; for those who have, the movie is merely amusing. The lines are good, the plot, based on the complexities of life at the Virginia Military Institute is excellent, and Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane get into trouble convincingly. And there are plenty of troubles. There is a wife to be concealed, scholastic difficulties to be overcome, and after hours escapades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...their tall) begins almost immediately. When questioned as to why the fish appeared so calm and showed no sign of nervousness, supposed to be one of their chief characteristics, the doctor pointed out that their movements to and fro are of such rapidity that they could not be seen. He reluctantly admitted that he had added a few buckets of gelatin to their water to slow them down...

Author: By Harry S. Hayward jr., | Title: Unique Trio of Big Brained Fish With Phi Beta Kappa Mentalities flabbergast All Harvard With Their Antics | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

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