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Word: tenderable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Carens has the wrong impression. Goalie Kerr appeared on TIME'S cover precisely because the appearance of a new topflight goal tender is more newsworthy than the continuance of a veteran who has been top-flight for ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...book is to show that the author is descended from Jupiter." Although Lost Atlantis contains careful expositions of the Atlantean arguments, the main impression it communicates is not that Atlantis ever existed but that Author Bramwell, as a literary sophisticate who has tired of heavier fare, has a tender feeling for the writing of cranks, if only they are cranky enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crank's Continent | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...annual award for the No. 1 angling exploit of 1937. Angler Martin's feat: bringing to gaff an 821-lb. tuna (new North American record), after a 4¾-hour struggle during which his efforts at times seemed as discouraging as trying to "tickle a locomotive in the tender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...detectives waiting outside. With a rush, Amundsen & men separated the dogs and arrested all present. The garage operator and dog owners were liable under State law to $1,100 fine or a year in jail or both; the watchers were released on bond. At week's end, after tender care by Missouri Humane Society's Veterinarian Carl Brenner, both dogs were in fine fettle, but were being held for probable asphyxiation-that they might never have to fight again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Dog Fight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...know that the Emperor is hard and uncompromising not so much because of his thundering orations as because of the fact that Marie is so tender and generous in comparison. We know that he was ambitious, determined, and belligerent, not so much because he marches to and fro with his jaw protruding and his brow wrinkled in a perpetual scowl, as because Marie is by comparison so very peace-loving and kind. Mr. Boyer is the star because it is the character of Napoleon which is the center of interest; but it is the acting of Miss Garbo which makes...

Author: By W. R. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

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