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Word: tigers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week there was a coy smile on the face of New York's Tammany tiger for on its back sat a fair colleen named Winifred C. O'Leary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lady and Tiger | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Traffic was stopped on University Place, Princeton Saturday afternoon, while a portion of the Tiger class of 1942 attempted to chastise the yearlings for flaunting the time-honored Princeton tradition of dink-wearing. Although the result was indecisive, the original handful of Sophomores was in possession of the field when the tussle was over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 Tigers Revolt | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...could hardly miss him. Tweeds and a good pipe and that sort of thing. He's handsome in an orthodox manner-- looks a bit like a collegiate clothes-model in Esquire. Fresh, the lady novelists would call him. He likes week-ends and New York, gets sentimental over the Tiger and a glass of beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...Tiger outfit that met ever whelming defeat at the hands of the Crimson eleven last fall. Wallace says, "Insiders warn that Tigertown is, perhaps, over-optimistic." He gives little hope to Yale rooters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Will Be Well Drilled Team This Season, Predicts Francis Wallace In Sat. Evs. Post Story | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

Week's end came and still no rain fell on northwest Oregon (where annual precipitation is normally 43.17 in.). Fitful breezes made the flames doubly capricious and dangerous. Roads were closed, armies of volunteers set backfires to head off the destroyer. In Washington, the red tiger rambled from the rough hills 45 miles north of Spokane on to the east and south, eating deeply into resort towns in the Liberty Lakes country, finally jumping the border into Idaho, where 1,500 men fought the flames at Spirit Lake. With more than 200,000 acres burned & burning, the fire strode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: Red Tiger | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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