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Word: worsteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After breakfast, however, at about 10:30 a. m., President Hoover breathed more easily. Returns then indicated that the worst (for him) had been averted. With only 40 districts to be heard from, the Democrats had only 183 House seats, 35 short of the vital figure of Majority. As the morning wore on, the Republican count crept slowly closer to that vital, fateful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOUSE: Hoover's Next-to-Worst | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...next-to-worst thing for the Administration still impended?the thing Speaker Longworth had feared and predicted: an upbuilding of Democratic strength to the point?204 seats?where the 15 insurgent Republicans of the House would possess a balance-of-power like that of their insurgent brethren in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOUSE: Hoover's Next-to-Worst | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Using trick line plays that made the strategies of Coach Glenn Warner look hopeless, Coach Howard Jones's Southern California Trojans jammed one touchdown over in the first three minutes, scored others rapidly, made gains that totaled 481 yd. and a score that constituted the worst beating any college has ever given Stanford. Southern California 41, Stanford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Yesterday we spent the time answering our neighbor's questions as to whether we really and truly were serious about all this shorts business. We even had a calf-comparing contest in which we came out very much the worst but content that if we could wear this newest in men's style, most anybody else could also...

Author: By The Dartmouth, | Title: "SHORTS" CAMPAIGN, NOW DORMANT, WILL AGAIN BE PURSUED NEXT SPRING | 10/25/1930 | See Source »

...question of what constitutes good and bad taste will never be settled by alumni bulletins or by any other single agency. What appears to one person to be in excellent taste is to another the worst sort of taste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/24/1930 | See Source »

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