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Word: windedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When settlers from Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri pushed down to Texas last century, they took their foxhounds with them. Looking around for choicer game than Texas' quickly grounded grey fox, the settlers found it in the wily, hard-running coyote or "Mexican Wolf." At first the new quarry proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Texas Wolf Hunt | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

While Clint Frank, considered by many grid followers as the outstanding back of the East, gives the starting backfield a slight edge, this advantage is overbalanced by the eight first-string backs which Coach Howie Odell has been able to provide for the game. Struck and Hedblom at fullbacks; McTernen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Squad Takes Harvard's Hopes of Big Three Gridiron Title With Them to Yale Today | 11/20/1936 | See Source »

Holmes's importance was of a different order. A wise, worldly, witty old doctor ie preached the art of living, attacking in his satires and essays the New England vices of glumness, morbid introspection, self-righteousness, false modesty, urging his readers to unlock their hearts to trust their wits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Critic's Garland | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

Piecing the tale together from the débris of sloppy obscurantism, childish motivation and antique methods of dramatic narration, reviewers found a fairly simple story: Quin Hanna, "an unscrupulous idealist," goes to a small New England town which for no good reason he decides to convert into a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 28, 1935 | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

With great enthusiasm and a high resolve not to dishonor its name, a group of Cossack villagers form the Joseph Stalin Collective, and in an extraordinary variety of ways proceed at once to run it to the ground. The principal figure in this comedy of Communist errors is Davidov, forthright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stalin Collective | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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