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Word: win (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus leave her legally free to continue Soviet aid to the Leftists, Chamberlain's mouthpiece, the Earl of Plymouth, subcommittee chairman, dumped the plan back in the Prime Minister's lap and postponed the session until this week. Meanwhile, Mr. Chamberlain will try not very hopefully to win Moscow's acceptance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Feeble Palliative | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Harvard, we would be led to believe, regards these few days as the solution for a winning team, the difference between one wooed by the Rose Bowl and one which cannot win a major game. In addition, she believes that they will provide just that margin necessary to whip the boys into such superlative condition that innumerable broken arms and bruised toes will be prevented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO AND FIVE-EIGHTHS | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

...Annapolis to watch the Adams Cup regatta from the bow of the launch of Rear Admiral Wilson Brown-his former naval aide, now superintendent of the Naval Academy. As a graduate of Harvard and the Navy Department, the President could be two-thirds sure of being on the winning side in every race. Sizzling comfortably in the hot sunshine, the party saw Harvard's freshman and varsity, Navy's junior varsity win three races on the sparkling Severn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...members in mass organizations [trade unions, farm and fraternal organizations, etc.] shall work jointly in a comradely manner to promote and strengthen the given organization. It shall be the duty of Party members ... to explain the mass policies of the Party and the principles of Socialism, to endeavor to win support for them, and they shall abide by the democratic decisions of the mass organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Rain Check on Revolution | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Helen Wills Moody: the women's singles of the Surrey tennis tournament, her second victory since arriving in England to try to win her eighth English championship at Wimbledon next month; defeating Margot Lumb, No. 10 in British ranking, in the final, 6-3, 6-4; at Surbiton, England. In both tournaments, Mrs. Moody lost only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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