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Word: worsteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roaring last week, the windup of Minnesota's gubernatorial campaign was sufficient reason. That spectacle had reached a point where Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson, stung by his Republican opponent's charges that the Farmer-Labor administration was a corrupt city slicker machine, hurled back the worst epithet he could think of, called burly young Republican Harold E. Stassen a "drugstore cowboy." As fantastic were Republican Stassen's chief campaign planks against the most successful Farmer-Labor party in the U. S. : he promised: 1) a State Labor Relations Act, and 2) to do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Drugstore Cowboy | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...This frequently infers," said Packard, "a subconscious desire to continue the handicap as a sort of insulation against the rigors of competitive college existence. In this regard a stutterer may become his own worst enemy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stutterers Often Continue Impediment As an Excuse, Speech Clinic Concludes | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...Harvard continues to ignore the foes in the wooden horse, as it has done in so far as possible to date, the danger is slight, and Election Day should bring at best an armistice between town and gown; at worst, the temporary defeat of Plan E. But Harvard must always be prepared for political assault of this kind so long as its "academic freedom" includes complete freedom of political thought to its teachers and students, and as long as Harvard's name is bigger news than most individuals'. As a progressive ideal in education, this privilege, extended to teachers like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRONTS OF UNIVERSITY WARFARE: POLITICAL | 10/26/1938 | See Source »

...Haiti," which opened last night at the Copley in a revised and amplified version sponsored by the Federal Theatre Project, combines some of the best and some of the worst features of stage production. Any critical analysis, however, should be prefaced by the comment that the play itself is in poor taste, particularly in view of its sponsor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/25/1938 | See Source »

...holding this view Harvard is either ahead of the times or it is not ahead of the times; if the latter, judgment may fairly be entered that Harvard men at the best are poor sports and at the worst yellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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