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Word: wholeheartedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wally's doughboys, like British Bruce Bairnsfather's Tommies, were pathetic but unfrightened little runts wallowing in mud, beset by cooties and all the creature discomforts of trench warfare. Most endearing to his readers and most distressing to some General Staff "brass hats' was Wally's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wally Returns | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Connor loved fishing, canoeing, talks with political bigwigs, the sound of bagpipes, victorious debates with Baptists (he was a Presbyterian), the city of Edinburgh, football, his work as chaplain of the Canadian forces during the War. But almost everything taught him a lesson; when he could barely lift his arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sky Pilot | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Almost single-handedly, he has caused an interest in Harvard swimming that swept it into the major sport class without a dissenting vote. Despite illness which would have kept another man out, he still insisted on swimming in the recent N. A. A. U. meet in order that part of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

For the doubtful pleasure of seeing these two second-raters in last week's "grudge fight" at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, 18,222 hopeful customers paid $74,409.22. To their surprise they got their money's worth. Few heavyweight fights in recent years have brought forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Papa Baer Did | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Published this week in Liberty are excerpts from President Roosevelt's forthcoming five-volume State papers (TIME, Feb. 21). Reporters, most of whom during the first few years of his regime were wholehearted admirers of him (although they are now more critical), he still thinks of as his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Reporter Roosevelt | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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