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Word: senting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation up to its ears in politics, Franklin Roosevelt last week played his familiar double role: half chief of the Democratic Party, half Chief Executive. As a partyman he flared angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see p. 8); sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark-skinned Publisher Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...scene only 20 undergraduates in each class could be judged perfect in posture and muscular activity; today the figure is nearer 100. His energies have extended beyond the scope of the College and into the training of boys in their formative years through reports and athletic programs sent back; to various preparatory schools. That Harvard can boast today a sturdier and more vigorous group of men is in no small measure directly the result of his personal efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSCLES PUT TO WORK | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

Annually for the last six years," the physical trainer stated, "we have sent back the ratings given Freshmen to the school which graduated them." He added that the figures were given 30 schools which enroll or six more boys at Harvard each year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sudden Increase In Student Posture Ratings Result of Physical Training | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, R. I., November 1 (ILNC) -- Orson Welles, youthful theatrical producer whose mythical army of Martians sent thousands fleeing from imagined air raids and gas attacks Sunday night, has been granted the P. T. Barnum Memorial Award by the Brown Daily Herald. Mr. Welles will receive his trophy, a lollipop, today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN HERALD LAUDS WELLES FOR MAKING SUCKERS BITE | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

...British recently have sent confidential emissaries to King Carol and next month His Majesty will make a State visit to King George. Last week Rumania and Yugoslavia were exerting pressure on their neighbor Hungary to keep her from grabbing such a great slice of Slovakia & Ruthenia as would pinch off the whole eastern end of Czechoslovakia. This would give Hungary and Poland a common frontier, would mean that Rumania and Czechoslovakia would no longer be adjoining States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Constitution | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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