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Word: wielder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Jack Barnaby's tennis team will meet three outfits during the next four days, starting with an encounter with the Harvard Graduates team at 2:30 today on the Divinity Courts. Robert Bentley '36 is the number 1 racquet wielder for the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen to Play Three Teams Within Period of Four Days | 4/28/1937 | See Source »

Never having seen a Hasty Pudding show, the blonde baton wielder, expressed some surprise and much amusement to hear that the chorus was of men. "I would like to see them in their costumes," she laughed. "The hairier they are the better, I suppose," Jack Granara, publicity man for the theater, assured us that if time could possibly be found, Ina Ray would make he first visit to Cambridge, before her present engagement ends, and show the Pudding cast a thing or two about dance routines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blonde Bombshell Flouts Dietitians; And With Exceedingly Good Results | 2/27/1937 | See Source »

...even such a hair-breadth distinction as this was not too small to be split by the hawk-eye wielder of the hammer at the Maintenance building. About a week age a brand new feel-proof device appeared at tached to the door. A package could get in, but an arm couldn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Bit His Nails, Pounded His Nails But Couldn't Control the U. S. Mails | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

...Sheridan after being contested by distant relatives of the late journalist's widow upon the traditional grounds that Mrs. Nieman was "not of sound mind and had not sufficient mentality to make a will", and that "undue influence upon her was exercised by persons or person unknown". Although the wielder of this influence was already spoken of as "unknown", the will-breakers were specific in exonnerating the President and Fellows of any attempt to obtain from the dying Mrs. Nieman the totally unexpected and apparently illogical gift of almost her entire $5,000,000 estate to Harvard, an institution without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nieman $5,000,000 Will Is Due For Hearing Before End of Week | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...steal a march on the New Deal, Manager Hamilton snapped: "Mr. White will have one vote out of the 18 from Kansas. Nobody is authorized to speak for Landon but Landon himself." Nonetheless Editor White was named Kansas' member of the convention's Resolutions Committee, thereby became wielder of the Landon pen in the writing of the platform. Constitution-loving Candidate Borah denounced the amendment proposal as a "matter of political expediency." But it remained a prime subject of convention talk, especially after Herbert Hoover paused at Ogden, Utah, on his way to Cleveland, announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Before the Flood | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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