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Word: whites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kenny Brown is a certainty at center, and Walt Matusczak will be in right field. Johnny Gannett and Hup Ryan will share the left garden duties. Coach Tatum has a pair of capable receivers in Bob White and Mike Ruddy...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: DARTMOUTH NINE IS SHORT OF CAPABLE INFIELD MEN | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

Samuel W. White Jr., '40, has been elected Lowell House Committee Chairman for the coming year. Other officers elected are Lincoln Clark Jr., '41, Treasurer; Joseph P. Lyford '41, Secretary; and Samuel G. McGlellan '41, House Permanent Dance committeeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Officers Elected | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...suit which cost him ?900. But when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke. In it Kavanagh told of visiting Dublin as a tramp with literary aspirations, calling on Gogarty: "I mistook Gogarty's white-robed maid for his wife-or his mistress. I expected every poet to have a spare wife." In London last month Dr. Gogarty sued Kavanagh for libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Life | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...land of plenty promised in a come-on California handbill. With them - the 13th passenger -goes lanky, philosophizing Preacher Casy, hillbilly Moses turned rustic socialist. Hero of the Joads is tall, homely son Tom, a paroled convict. Heroine is Ma Joad, strong, patient, dreaming of "a white house with oranges growin' around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oakies | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...novelists), he protests that he has at least a dozen prejudices: He hates musical comedies, trilogies, "female legs in the daily news," simplified spelling, contact as a verb, big books ("as depressing as soggy porridge"). His own big book runs to 986 pages, weighs 2⅝ Ib. Now 74, white-haired, deeply tanned, still vigorous, though saddened by the recent death of his wife, William Lyon Phelps is retired from Yale and Scribner's, contributes a column to the Rotarian, picks an annual list of "best books," writes few book reviews. But his influence is by no means extinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humanities' Playboy | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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