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Word: star (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starting lineup which now finds Anderson and Naylor at the forward posts, Macioce at center, and O'Brien and Retano as guards is good--as good as the team on paper in which Wolff was expected to star...

Author: By Edwin P. Kaufmann, SPORTS EDITOR, THE COLUMBIA SPECTATOR | Title: Flashy Columbia Five Holds Slight Hope of Win Tonight | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

About "Scandal Street," the co-feature, little that is complimentary can be said. It has no plot, no star, and no acting; it is dull, familiar, and insipid. Its one redeeming feature is the rather pretty face of one Louise Campbell, the poor innocent girl who is almost ruined by the villainous town gossips...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

...Ulen declared that the tests had been concluded and that no more oxygen would be used at all. The chief value of the tests, he said, was a psychological one--in other words the use of a non-stimulant aid such as oxygen, by Hutter, has showed the Crimson star that he is really capable of the remarkable times erroneously thought to be induced mainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Ulen Experiments With Effects Of Pure Oxygen on Speed of Tankmen | 2/16/1938 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, new trouble broke out in Texas, where three associated dailies-Brownsville Herald, McAllen Monitor and Harlingen Star-turned off their presses and padlocked their doors rather than sign closed-shop contracts with their printers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Peace | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Collegiate rivalry for star athletes is a long-standing custom. But today competition between colleges for just plain students is so sharp that many institutions entice even nonathletic high school graduates with pictures of girls in bathing suits, offers of tuition rebates. One Indiana college went so far as to kidnap three freshmen from another institution, make them a better offer. The freshmen accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cutthroat | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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