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Word: things (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope that there would be no repetition of what happened at the Yale Record a short while ago. The Record had invited the Lampoon to a friendly meal but the Harvard comedians found that they were expected to ante $1.50 rental and were so annoyed about the way the thing was being handled that they appropriated considerable silverware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON FEARS VANDALISM AS COMIC CONFAB OPENS | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

...asked the bright young thing, "is President Lowell?" pointing on the picture of the boy cutting his birthday cake on page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

...minutes of the second period, the game, which began as a slow, close-checking affair, began to open up, and from then on it was fast, exciting hockey all the way through. Brilliant saves by Freedley, who replaced Mittell as netminder early in the game, were the only thing that prevented the Olympics from scoring at least twice in the last period. Most spectacular of these came when he dropped his stick to catch a well-placed penalty shot from the stick of Cliff Thompson, Olympic forward and former Stoneham star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TEAM BEATS FAVORED JUNIOR OLYMPICS 3-1 | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

...thing actually to see something; and it is quite another thing to read and then see it, since there is bound to be a difference in the two pictures which meet the eye. For instance, read a novel, say Hardy's "Return of the Native"--with which almost every student comes in contact sooner or later. As you read, you see the picture of the land through Hardy's words, but you build up a picture of your own with your mental eye. Thus, when he describes the opening scene: "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

PARIS--American football has had its debut before sports-loving Frenchmen, and the verdict tonight was that the best thing about the game was the "huddle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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