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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was steamy stuff, not to be compared with the mere wiggling of Reds. Governor Murphy is up for re-election in a key State where the Republicans have a chance to win. He also is a maybe-maybe-not prospect for the U. S. Supreme Court. At all events he is a devoted friend and follower of Franklin Roosevelt. But now one of his pet oxen was being gored. Although politicians have long assured businessmen and others that it is perfectly proper for Congressional investigations to permit biased witnesses to air scandalous charges against honest citizens, in this case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Dies and Duty | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

LONDON--The Dean of Westminister Abbey today told a group of excavators to pack up their spades and get out after they had opened the wrong grave in search of an answer to the 170-year-old dispute as to whether William Shakespeare really wrote his own stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...some years the correct attitude among newspaper reviewers has been that the more artists, especially young and "promising" artists, get their stuff shown in Manhattan, the more indubitably the Renaissance is at hand. A few weeks ago. however, the New York Times's Howard Devree let himself go and wrote a couple of thousand words to the effect that if he and his colleagues were to be anything but leg men there must be a reduction in the prodigious number of seasonal exhibitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young Man in Manhattan | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...football field concerns a man you know. It was in 1910, and Penn State beat Pittsburgh 3-0. State had a tackle, one of the best there ever was, and he had water on the knee, had to be carried to the field. They put ice and stuff on his knee. The other team were confident that he couldn't play more than a few minutes. Well, he played an all-American game for 60 minutes. Name was Dick Harlow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tom Thorp, Dean of Umpires, All for "Schools of Learning" | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

...Rough Stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tom Thorp, Dean of Umpires, All for "Schools of Learning" | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

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