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Word: steers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fantastic black French periwig. But, like trying to purify the water by whitewashing the village pump, it did not work. To situations considerably less potential than the story of Adam & Eve, Actress West imparts a meaning all her own; despite all directorial and script-writing efforts to make her steer a straight course, she still writhes as she pleases. As sexless a game as selling a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge resembles, in the West vernacular, a bargain sale of great temptations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...sure that the job available to him is not poisonous--at least for him. Actually we cannot draw this parallel quite so far, for the reason that there are no vocational experts qualified to issue pills of wisdom which will decide for all patients what course they ought to steer...

Author: By Donald H. Moyer, OF THE ALUMNI PLACEMENT OFFICE | Title: Placement Office Plays Vocational Doctor to Seniors | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

...World's Championship Rodeo has no world's championships to offer in calf-roping, steer-wrestling, bronco-riding or any other spectacular event of a rodeo. Nearest approach to such championships are the point scores compiled annually by the Rodeo Association of America (which the Garden rodeos joined last year) on the basis of some 50 rodeos, including the famed contests at Cheyenne, Pendleton, Calgary and Salinas. But the World's Championship Rodeo is champion in one respect, drawing more first-rate performers than any single Western rodeo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broadway Rodeo | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...fourth night of the show Steer Rider Walter Cravens, one of the best on the circuit, was thrown and trampled on: died next day of a punctured lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broadway Rodeo | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Purposes of the Guide are to steer the first year man toward those studies which have been lauded by his predecessor and to aid him in the choice of a Field of Concentration which he must face at the end of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTAL GUIDES ARE MAILED ALL FRESHMEN | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

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