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Word: worsteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only satisfactory remedy for the present situation would be the erection of a new house. Since this solution seems to be impossible at the moment, some temporary remedy should be applied at once. The worst feature of the mess seems to be the fact that those upperclassmen not in a house have no place of their own in which they can gather and in which the have their meals. Some such arrangements as has just been made for commuters should be made for these other forgotten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORGOTTEN MEN | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...What do you think is the worst fault most women commit in general dressing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clothes Make the Woman, Says Vogue; Turns to Crimson for Ideas on Dress | 9/28/1935 | See Source »

...goal that finally won, 9-to-8, for the Hurricanes, was scored in the last chukker when Hurlingham was addition ally burdened because its No. 1, "Chicken"' Walford, had in a crisis chosen a mare named Golden Gleam which of all the British ponies was patently the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: $2.20 Polo | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

Last week Diplomat Martin, having as a child seen British troops invade Ethiopia, ruffled the Nile Club by observing with asperity: "If worst comes to worst, Ethiopia would much prefer being under the just and considerate administration of Britain than that of Italy." This caused the British Foreign Office to call him in next day and intimate that an envoy to the Court of St. James's would do well not to refer publicly to His Majesty's Government as the lesser of two evils. But meanwhile 9-year-old John Martin had completely won over the Nile Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Please Stop This Man | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...AUTHORS ONLY?Kenneth Roberts ?Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Bright, superficial essays on the slim rewards of authors, the easy bewilderment of the English, as reflected in their mystery stories, the worst sides of English education, golf, dogs and diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

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