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Word: wakefulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of the rumors that followed in the wake of the contract signed on Saturday with the A. F. of L. cooks and waitresses were spiked by a statement made to the CRIMSON yesterday by John W. Lowes '19, Financial Vice-president of the University, whose remarks were confirmed by Joseph Stefani, secretary and business representative of locals...

Author: By Charles L. Bigelow, | Title: REPORT OF SECRET CLAUSE IN LABOR CONTRACT DENIED | 2/2/1938 | See Source »

...change personalities or bodies, whichever way you choose to look at it. What the biochemist husband has failed to do for certain lower organisms by monkeying around with chemicals changing their sex his Irsh maid odes for him and his wife by Macbethian witchcraft. And so one morning they wake up vice-versa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

...second Walter Winchell-Ben Bernie musical to appear, and as entertainment is superior to "Wake up and Live," although the music--"Sweet Someone," "I Wanna Be in Winchell's Column," "Darling, Jo Vous Aime Beaucoup," and others--may not have the appeal of "Never in a Million Years," and the title song of the previous production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...seems that for generations teams have been getting good, have been winning a lot of victories, and have been getting over confident as a result. Last March the Crimson swimming team, generally regarded as the underdog, left Yale's supposedly invincible squad very definitely in its wake. The Yale meet wasn-t even decided by the outcome of the relay, the last event. The Harvard splashers took the lead and never relinquished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

...most of the 200 writers who give the U. S. its surfeit of literary talk get no such fees. In the declining scale of rates, a best-selling author like Dorothea Brande (Wake Up and Live!) can count on getting $500 a lecture, while best-selling writers of the stature of Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama) are quoted at $200. The majority of lectures are delivered at prices ranging between $100 and $200, and in the case of impromptu readings of poets or proletarian novelists to radical groups, rates finally taper off to $5 an evening or just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Authors to the Road | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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