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Word: toms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moments when human values are treated without sham and military fanfare, "The Duke of West Point" is a really good picture. Louis Hayward, Tom Brown and Richard Carlson are a trio worth watching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Tom Healey is a potent factor in more than one respect. Coach Floyd Stahl was pitching to him in batting practice before the Princeton game, when a savage Healey liner caught Stahl squarely on the proboscis, breaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Batsmen Turn Back Penn In Third Victory | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Last week the civic muck of Kansas City, Mo., was stirred and roiled. How rich and black its muck could be, Kansas City had just learned from the indictment of Boss Tom Pendergast, charged with taking $315,000 in boodle and failing to pay U. S. income taxes thereon. What followed was more surprising: the boss's machine set out to prove to Kansas City that pure hearts can beat beneath mucky vests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: First Floor Cleaned | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Bryce-Byram Smith, as Mayor, up to last week was a powerless dummy. Such authority as Boss Tom did not wield for himself was vested (since 1926) in rich, famed City Manager Henry F. McElroy and in the City Council. Last week Mayor Smith suddenly announced that for the good of Kansas City, he was taking unto himself the powers placed in Henry McElroy by the city charter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: First Floor Cleaned | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Stahlmen put together four bingles, a fielder's choice, and a double steal to account for two runs in the third inning and to all purposes won the ball game right there. Big Tom breezed along, mowing the Tigers down relentlessly, and the infield support behind him was just about air-tight...

Author: By E. O. Cerf, Sports Editor, and Daily Princetonian, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: HEALEY GIVES FOUR HITS AS STAHLMEN BEAT TIGERS 7 TO 0 | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

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