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Word: yapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portion of the people are damn sick of these Clean Cut Young Men, as Nemo declares in your issue of February 13, another portion of the people, I venture to suggest, are also damn sick and tired of the Jittery Juveniles who so insistently yap their disbelief in the honesty of those who, as a matter of good taste if nothing more, actually prefer cleanliness, decency, and integrity to their opposites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stardust | 2/14/1934 | See Source »

...football fields. Get equipment today at your earliest convenience at Dillon Field House between 9 and 5 o'clock. The coaches will be as follows: William L. Phinney 3L, Winthrop House; Eward S. Amazeen, Lowell House; William H. Sturges, Phillips Brooks House; W. C. Brister 2G.B., Leverette House; Harold Yap, Eliot House; William Brooks 2L, Kirkland House; William Burrage, Adams House; Adolph W. Samborski, Dunster House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRAMURAL SPORTS TO COMMENCE SEASON SOON | 9/26/1933 | See Source »

...patriot and the hot desires of a journalist are constantly interbreeding, raised his head alertly at Japan's announcement, last spring, that though she had withdrawn from the League of Nations, she had no idea of relinquishing her League-given mandate over the Marianne, Caroline, Palau, Yap and Marshall Islands in the Pacific (TIME, April 3). The Yellow Peril has for 30 years been a great circulation-getter for the Hearstpapers, which the Hearst-whooped Spanish War put on the map. Here came the Yellow Peril to squat permanently between the U. S.-possessed Philippine and Hawaiian Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Again, Yellow Peril | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

When President Hamilton Holt dismissed Professor Rice (brother-in-law of Swarthmore's President Aydelotte), TIME, may have mistaken the yap of a small undergraduate minority for a case of widespread indignation. It now appears that President Holt did indeed have "good and sufficient" reason for the exercise of his executive authority; and that there was no genuine issue of Liberalism. TIME awaits the final report of the American Association of University Professors on the Rice inquiry and meanwhile regrets any injustice it may have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1933 | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

Elmer the Great (First National), based on a play by Ring Lardner and George M. Cohan, is a sophisticated version of baseball's saga of the yap rookie who makes good. This is the second time the play has been done in sound but the treatment is fresh, the characters new. Elmer (Joe E. Brown) is a temperamental yap. The Chicago Cubs buy his contract, find he has lost interest in baseball, make a deal with his girl (Patricia Ellis) to lure him into camp. There he bats out their best pitcher, walks off raging because they are incompetent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

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