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Word: white (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell's undefeated touch football team, sparked by Sam White, Bud Doering, and Bob Murray, clinched the House touch title yesterday afternoon by swamping Dunster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Touch Champions | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

...play politics with a conservative Congress without seeming to do so; Taft had to temper Uncle Joe Cannon and was promptly accused of bowing to him. T. R.'s bouncing spirit rode the ground swell of the Progressive movement; Taft was too solid to bounce. His great girth, white walrus moustaches and booming chuckle made it easy for people to like him at first, just as easy for them to see him later as an affable pushover for Big Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Man | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...WITCH IN THE WOOD-T. H. White-Putnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arthurian Cocktail | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...White's well-timed, wild dialogues are suggestive of the better (not the best) comic strips. His Freudian overtones and contemporary analogies make the book "profound," in the publisher's opinion, as well as "funny." There is an ice carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with pratt falls; there is an affecting and terrible sequence, in somewhat doubtful taste, about a unicorn. The book as a whole might be described as a shake-up of British rectory humor, Evelyn Waugh, Laurel & Hardy, John Erskine, and the Marquis de Sade, quite well enough blended to please the palate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arthurian Cocktail | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

These are the facts of that record. Since the war began, there has been a series of submarine alarms, all announced by the President, none of which has been confirmed by naval or other authorities. White House Press Secretary Stephen Early released a communication from Germany which called on all friends of Germany which called on all friends of Germany in the U.S. to help fight repeal of the arms embargo. The President has chosen to open the ports of the U.S to armed merchantmen of belligerent powers, while closing them to submarines. He has also given way drastically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME FOR A RE-DEAL | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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