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Word: tilting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand petitioners on his behalf are not the only ones to rejoice that Dr. Kilpatrick is given a fresh mount from which to tilt at his foes. With John Dewey and George Counts he is one of the "three bad boys" of Morningside Heights, who love always to blow up old dogmas of education. Sailing with great gusto into the teaching based on folkways and tradition, he preaches a schooling tied to the life of today, teaching the latest social problems in the everchanging, indeterminate manner of modern culture itself. The great object of his scorn is the smugness with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RENEWAL OF FAITH | 2/26/1937 | See Source »

Coach Clark Hodder's Yardling sextet has had no luck with the weather this season. Both of their outdoor games so far have been cancelled due to lack of ice, those with Milton Academy and Exeter, and yesterday their tilt with Cambridge Latin was postponed. This encounter was scheduled for the Arena, but the outdoor balm penetrated within and melted the works. The teams will meet Wednesday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Warmth Foils 1940 Puckmen | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

Wrong prices are so rare as to be almost negligible as a source of loss on the books. Montgomery Ward recalls with horror, however, that once tilt sheeting was erroneously priced at 92? instead of $9.25. A few alert customers jumped in with large orders, which were filled at the list price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bulk | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...Crimson Ed Ingalls and George Tittmann will probably be the starting pitchers opposed by Bill Gannett and John DeBettencourt. Mal McTernen will occupy Tittmann's position in right field in the second tilt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY BASEBALLERS HUNT COLUMBIA LIONS | 4/25/1936 | See Source »

Much as he would like the Democratic Presidential nomination for himself, much as he dislikes the New Deal, Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge has no stomach as yet for a tilt with Franklin Roosevelt at Georgia's ballot boxes. Dismayed, therefore, was "Gene" Talmadge fortnight ago when Seminole County Democrats took matters in their own hands, held a Presidential preference primary, plumped 5-to-1 for Roosevelt. Last week Harris County followed suit 27-to-1. Belatedly, Governor Talmadge got Barrow County to postpone its primary while the Talmadge-dominated Democratic State Committee tried to figure some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Plump, Plump | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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