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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planned to sue for the price of next year's subscription to TIME but it looks too dangerous. You might prove that idiotic stuff-and handily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...greatest of Negro blues singers, Bessie Smith. Vanity Fair added an innocent editorial note to his article: "Soon, doubtless, the homely Negro songs of love-sickness known as the Blues, will be better known and appreciated by white audiences." Actually, of course, Bessie Smith was old and revered stuff to many a U. S. jazz lover. But in 1926 she was at the height of her career, making nearly $2,000 a week. Last September, still trouping but almost forgotten by the U. S. public, which has in the past three years taken to hot music with an intensity surpassing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bessie's Blues | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Yale's undefeated and only once tied football team is fully aware that it has the toughest job of the year on its hands Saturday in Cambridge. Still the Eli gridmen are in good shape, mentally and physically. The seven games so far have proven that they have the stuff. With a week's intensive practice supplementing al this experience, they expect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale News Sports Editor Foresees Victory After Close Game Tomorrow | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

Before me lies the latest issue of the "Harvard Guardian," as chock-full as its prodecessors with exciting stuff. The leading feature of this issue is "Sorokin and the Dangerous Science. It consists of three articles by distinguished members of the faculty, discussing the three volumes of Professor Sorokin's "magnum opus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

...them cut classes in a body, piled onto the running boards, fenders, hoods and roofs of automobiles, set out for a crowing carnival in Eugene, 40 miles away. At that town's portals, State and city police halted the cavalcade and warned it against "rough stuff." Nevertheless, within 30 minutes as fine a roughhouse was in progress as had taken place on sobering U. S. campuses in a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rough Stuff | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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