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Word: throughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eliot's courageous Elephants came through in the pinches to gain their first victory in the last game of the House football season winning from Leverett, 7 to 6, when Bunny Hunt Hamill's kick for the extra point hit the crossbar and bounced back into the playing field.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT DOWNS BUNNIES 7-6, FOR FIRST VICTORY | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

Mrs. Keith married and went to Borneo in 1934, returned to the U. S. on her first leave this year. She writes cautiously little, suggestively well, of the social stringencies of the European colony, "as gently inflexible . . . as the design on a set of teacups," devotes more specific attention to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atlantic Wife | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

On a long deep trip through the jungle Mrs. Keith, only woman along, had a grim time of it, sitting in boats with her buttocks continuously wet, trying not to lag in the slimy trudging, tattered by leeches and insects, dozing through the drowned nights squatted in bed in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atlantic Wife | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Besides her honest, very neatly told, never uninteresting story, Mrs. Keith presents the psychological spectacle of a likable, genteel lady who may crossruff but never cancel her ladyhood. Seen through that lens, her portrait of Borneo is seriously limited.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atlantic Wife | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

A smoldering cigarette on a couch in the 60 Mt. Auburn St. rat-house brought eight pieces of fire apparatus screaming through Saturday night 10 o'clock revelry, only to find that the janitor, Daniel Sheehan, had already extinguished the flicker.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eight Fire Engines Hurry to Douse Blaze on Mt. Auburn | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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