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Word: welled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subway Express. If a police inspector be summoned aboard a subway train and told that a man has been shot dead, it may well give him pause. If a medical examiner gets on a few stations down the line and declares that the killing resulted not from shooting but from electrocution a few moments beforehand, the inspector may well be dumbfounded. If the car lights are suddenly extinguished and a likely witness is riddled with bullets, the inspector may even be pardoned for surrendering his badge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...never-never land of Zilania is the scene for Sweethearts; a disguised princess (Gladys Baxter), the heroine given the Sweetheart waltz to sing; an heir presumptive (Charles Massinger), the hero ("Every Lover must Meet His Fate"). Both careful performers, they did well with tunes that are still fresh and crinkling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Herbert Revived | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Saturday afternoon a class team composed, of Juniors and Sophomores played Tabor Academy to a scoreless tie on Hoyt Field, Marion. Both teams played well on the defense, but were weak offensively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Team Ties Tabor | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Important as it is to society, the program of law reform is both large and difficult and its completion will be a matter of decades rather than years. Harvard may well be proud of being represented among the leaders in the movement and the new Institute has opportunity to make a valuable contribution. It is especially fortunate to have at its head Professor Redlich, whose experience as Austrian Minister of Finance and as Professor of Public Law at the University of Vienna quality him from both the administrative and the academic point of view and make him an admirable leader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPARATIVE LAW | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...contest revealed that the University squad possessed a fund of power and promising material, but the sustained drive, so essential for success in the series of hard games which concludes, the schedule, was not in evidence. Intensive drill alone can weld this Harvard machine into a well-coordinated unit capable of realizing its full strength. Only occasionally did the eleven click efficiently and only then could those who saw the clash get an idea of the promise which the aggregation holds for the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN COASTS TO UNIMPRESSIVE WIN | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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