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Word: things (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Rusty Greenhood will not meet any important opposition in the dive, but will have an opportunity to roll up a good point total for the New Haven papers to copy. So far this year, Yale's Endweiss has been doing more of this sort of thing than has Greenhood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOPMEN EDGE HUSKIES; MERMEN MEET BOSTON "Y" | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

Flack termed the whole thing as a hoax, and said that he had no knowledge of the advertisement putting the college on the block which appeared recently in a New York newspaper. Shor ran across the ad two weeks ago, and in answer to his inquiries, received a letter signed by "W. R. Flack" which named $250,000 as the purchase price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARYLAND COLLEGE PURCHASE FAILS; DEAN CRIES 'HOAX' | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

...least one other thing besides the British Empire the sun never sets: the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. In Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, the U. S., they are many a tot's first taste of theatre, many an oldster's last object of devotion. They draw dramaphobes out of retirement, lure suburbanites to the city. They foster cultists as rabid as Wagnerians-cultists who, unlike Wagnerians, squeal, snort, gurgle, hum and nudge their neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: G&S | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...fine thing it is to have a patient wife, four bright-eyed children and $26,000 worth of stock in the bank. But rare is the man who has attained that state on a salary of only $43 a week. One such is kindly-faced, near-sighted Gus Anderson, who charges batteries for the electric trucks of Pilgrim Laundry, Inc. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Gus began his work 25 years ago for $25 a week and today, in his overalls and heavy shoes, he looks as though he didn't have a spare dime. But he is typical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SERVICES: Pilgrims' Progress | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Jack Waldron's close second in the 2:38 breaststroke would have been just the thing needed to keep the victory streak of the Ulen men unbroken against the Brown Bruins. And Phil Walker in third place was also under the 2:42 time which won the event for the Bruins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Submerge Colgate Maroons 64 to 11 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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