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Word: shirked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus considered, the novel is far from fascinating. What gives it its considerable interest is Author Holden's dogged, intelligent exploration of precisely those matters which run-of-the-mine novelists shirk: namely, the ambiguous complexities of even the most "normal" motives and actions. These subtleties and minutiae are themselves the true substance of this story. Lacking entirely the brilliance of the best work in its field, lacking no less the textbook glibness of the cheap work, as a psychological novel, Believe the Heart is definitely to be respected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Shirker | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Michigan, the Detroit Newspaper Guild set another precedent when it bought space in the arch-Republican Free Press for a political ad. ''REPORTERS KNOW!" clarioned the Guild. "We have mingled with men and women in the breadlines . . . witnessed big taxpayers' vain attempts to shirk. . . . Frank Murphy MUST Be Re-Elected!" On its front page the Free Press testily explained it had taken the Guild's money only because it believes in freedom of the press, opined that most Detroit newspapermen "are not led by the nose to the ballot box by John Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporters Know! | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

When Bill Shirk scored from third, making the score 4 to 4, and when Johnny Weston tallied from second, making it 5 to 4, the Straus Trophy, emblematic of the House athletic championship was whisked back to Lowell House for the third time in the four years of its existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Nose Out Kirkland; Win Straus Cup Contest 5-4 | 5/26/1938 | See Source »

...Crane, ss. 4 0 0 Murphy, cf. 4 0 1 Doering, 1b 2 0 0 Levin, p. 2 0 1 Story, c. 3 0 0 Dampeer, 3b. 2 2 0 Stubbs, sc. 1 1 1 Knowlton, 2b. 1 0 0 Finn (*) 0 0 0 Swifts 0 0 0 Shirk, (***) 0 1 0 Kelley, rf. 1 0 0 Mendel, rf. 0 0 0 Viets (**) 1 0 0 25 5 4 KIRKLAND ab r h King c. 3 1 1 Marks p. 4 1 1 Diegel rf., sc. 4 0 1 Mudge, sc. p. 3 0 1 Evers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Nose Out Kirkland; Win Straus Cup Contest 5-4 | 5/26/1938 | See Source »

...order in a fifth inning rally threatened the eight run lead the Ramblers had amassed in the other game. The lineups: LOWELL (4) ELIOT (2) Pinansky, c. c., Wells Rogers, p. p., Tillman Deering, 1b. 1b., Madey Scott, 2b. 2b., Peterfreund Brown, s.s. s.s., Demeter Durant, 3b. 3b., Reed Shirk, s.l. s.l., Stern Kelley, l.f. l.f., Rogers Johnson, c.f. c.f., Lee Call, r.f. r.f., Uihlein Substitutions: LOWELL: White, Viets, Dale; ELIOT: Gill, Kaplan. DUDLTY (13) DUNSTER (9) Thune, 2b. c., Lipsitt Simon, s.l. p., Kinnicut Ulin, s.s. 1b., Philbrick Soltz, 1b. 2b., McDonald Rosenberg, 3b. 3b., Merrill Fisher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

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