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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these six practice tilts Charley Lutz proved that only one word is applicable to him--inimitable. He is by all odds the cleverest ball handler to wear the Crimson spangles since the start of Wes Fesler's coaching regime here. In Captain Lupien the Varsity quintet has a dependable defensive player and a sterling competitor. He gave B.U's Solly Nechtem a tough fight, never allowing him to get a shot within the free-throw area, and Lupe held his Wesleyan foe scoreless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

...worst when it comes across a sign saying "paint" resting gingerly on the walls of some stairway. There surges within most individuals an irresistible impulse either to carry off the placard and relax it against the faucet of a washbowl, or else refuse to take the painter at his word and run a testing finger along the damp surface until the amount of paint collected on the digit impedes further progress. The result is probably worse than no sign at all, in which case bitter experience with new coats would soon deaden curiosity and remove all friction between the wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

Adding a new catch-word to his growing collection, Mr. Lippmann fixed on the President's references to religion as being the casiest to distort. With a skill derived from experience, he took Mr. Roosevelt's concept of devout, pious, moral religion and deliberately confused it with the medieval dogma of temporal churches. And out of this tortured thinking he drew a religion of his own making, "mysticism" as practised by the Oxford Group, passive, ennervating, a religion that would do away with such Marxian innovations as strikes, wage increase demands and the class struggle in general. Labelling this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. LIPPMANN HAILS MR. ROOSEVELT | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

...word "tycoon" originated in Japan. Last week a bona fide tycoon, Takashi Masuda, died in Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Great Imperialist | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Word comes from the inner sanctum of the Boston Evening American that Phillip J. Rulon, assistant professor of Education, has accepted the invitation to Miss Ann Marsters to be one of three judges in the Cosmopolitan contest for a girl to represent Massachusetts at the World's Fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN GETS PROFESSOR TO JUDGE "PERSONALITY" GIRLS | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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