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Word: ward (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already made inroads upon the morale of Norfolk, and thrown a specialized and non-political institution into the quagmire of partisan dispute. That a technical prison investigation should be conducted by an auditor is inappropriate enough; but that the newspapers and public should consign it to the limbo of ward politics is grave injustice to a public servant whose honesty, ability, and usefulness to the state have never before been questioned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORFOLK | 2/6/1934 | See Source »

That some means of avoiding this must be invented there is no doubt. But how this is to be done without virtually taking away the political independence of Austria and making her a mere ward of the League presents an unusually thorny problem. Everything is on the side of the Nazis; it will not be surprising if they are able to brave all the rest of Europe, and set up a Fascist government in Vienna which in everything but name will be merely a sub-station of the main Brown House in Berlin. NEMO...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...married estate of Carol (Genevieve Tobin) and John (Adolphe Menjou) is accurately outlined when she remarks: "First a double bed. then twin beds, now separate rooms." When Carol discovers her husband is consorting with her best friend Charlotte (Mary Astor), she acquires a nominal friend of her own (Ed ward Everett Horton). Carol's aimless attempts to get her husband back permit all four characters to engage in some wan didoes but in the end it takes Carol's daughter (Patricia Ellis) to bring her parents together. Shots for admirers of blank, blithering Edward Everett Horton: his telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...essential to the real importance of the University." By which it seems that he imputes that the officers which the Army and Navy have sent here are of no importance. Has the CRIMSON in its desire for sensationalism degenerated to the petty mud throwing of ward politicians? Even though the Army and the Navy send some of their best men here to be Professors and instructors of Military Science and Tactics, is the college to accept the policy of your editorial writer and, just because a few students cannot get a book at an hour which suits their particular, personal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...yard freestyle--Won by Chrostowski (P); second, John L. Ward, '34; third, Abbot W. Sherwood, '35. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWIMMING TEAM SCORES OVER PROVIDENCE CLUB | 1/19/1934 | See Source »

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