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Word: walks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, if the puritans beat Kirkland, and then either win or the their final contest against the strong Elephants, they will once again walk off with the House football title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/5/1936 | See Source »

...organization with BE A VOLUNTEER IN GREAT FIGHT TO SAVE NATION! and first announced its slogan: "Only 97 days are left to save your country!" Aim was to enroll citizens who would carry the Landon message by ringing doorbells and telephones, singing songs, making street- corner addresses ("Walk up to a crowd and boldly recite your speech!"). Volunteers were urged to end telephone conversations not with "Goodby" but with "Join the Volunteers." Recruiting offices were established on the 17th floor of the Tribune Tower, ballyhoo appeared daily in the Tribune, and by last week the Volunteers claimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Press | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...also read Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the Atlantic Monthly, and could identify such widely assorted characters as Vincent van Gogh, Beatrice Lillie and Princes Natalie Paley, she still stood in need of advice on "how to do my hair, powder my nose, cultivate sex appeal and walk a straight line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barbara's Beautification | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Last Good Friday night Elizabeth Smith, 18, thick-waisted daughter of a strict Bronx family, stayed up with the family until around midnight. Early next morning, looking slimmer and paler than she had for some months, Elizabeth Smith took the family dog for a customary walk. Later that Saturday the Smith neighborhood was in an uproar of police car sirens, screeching housewives, giggling boys and girls. In the airshaft of the tenement next door to the Smiths', a newborn baby boy had been found dead, apparently dropped from the roof. Easter Sunday, detectives asked childish Elizabeth Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trouble | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...majority of these laws appear on inspection to be rather old. For instance, the banana skin rule was last amended in 1902; it reads, "No person shall throw or place upon any sidewalk or cross-walk any banana skin, orange peel, or slippery substance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Positively No Oxen, Sheep, Pigs, Cows, or Goats Allowed to Graze on Streets | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

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