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Word: whitings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Wes Fesler will undoubtedly stand pat on the quintet which rallied to gain the great victory over Northeastern's Huskies, 31 to 26. This means that Charley Lutz and Fred Heckel will be at the forwards, Homer Peabody at center, while Lupe Lupien and Sam White will hold down the guard positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feslermen After Second Victory in Tilt With Brown | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

...that the clean air, the snowy winters with bright skies, the flood of summer sunlight reflecting off the sea, the red barns and white cottages and dry-shingled wharf shacks wash and burn the Thomas Kings and Tom Baileys until they are scraped down to the "cord," leaving their inner texture bare for all to see. There is not that covering of subtlety and finesse which enables people to deceive one another, to appear insincere, to hide true thoughts. But the character of these simple people is so often invisible to us because of this very lack of surface adornment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

...Church at Jacona" give a weird effect, especially as the solid form of the structure is almost lost in a hazy smothering of paint. Again in "Jacona Houses" the mood is melancholy, sombre, and weird, intensified by dark tones of paint, except for a splash of bluish white breaking out of the gloom on the right side of the picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

...Else, Fred Macy, George Hanna, Bob White, Ed Maiflette, Jack Horner and a host of other lesser lights are the other top ranking men on the Indians' squad. With Cottone the Greenies would be heavy favorites to retain their crown, and without him they are still the team to beat...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: Indian Hoopmen Have Good Chance of Keeping Title in Intercollegiate Loop | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

...fact that he was the 23rd Aberdeen-Angus to win the single steer Grand Championship. Most upstart of all U. S. cattle breeds, purebred Angus were first imported from Scotland in 1878 by the Lake Forest, Ill. cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay. Only a few years before, a white-haired Scottish landowner named William McCombie had developed the short-necked, squat, hornless, soot-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas and in Iowa, were adding Aberdeen-Angus to their herds. The blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pure Filet Mignon | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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