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Word: alabama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the mere cutting of a cord sent them hurtling into the road. Concrete pillboxes, sunk into the earth and covered with sod, guarded all main avenues of passage. In the thick fir forests hid the Finns themselves, trained since childhood to use their knives as cleverly as an Alabama Negro uses his razor, and since joining the Army to aim their machine guns as accurately as a sharpshooter aims his rifle. Finally, there was the snowstorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Such Nastiness | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Though some of the most versatile cheerleaders at Southern colleges (notably Alabama and Tennessee) are dimple-kneed coeds, girls are not eligible for the All-America cheering squad. "Every year there is a campaign to take them in, but every year we keep them out," scowls President Ritter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Louis Levy was born 62 years ago in the little town of Forkland, that lies near the Mississippi border in southern Alabama. At 17 he was in Yale. In 1901 he was at Columbia Law School, where one of his classmates was a heavyset, luxury-loving youth named Martin Thomas Manton. By 1910 he was the junior partner in the firm of Stanchfield & Levy. Stanchfield was one of the powerful Democrats who labored mightily to impeach Governor William Sulzer back in 1913. Louis Levy was then a well-groomed, sharp young lawyer. In this same year he was closely questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disbarred | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Northwestern" Carnegie Tech 7, Holy Cross 0 Tech is overdue Michigan 20, Penn 6 Wolverines on the rebound Boston College 20, Boston U. 7 No trouble for Eagles Villanova 14, Temple 0 Not much chance for upset here Amherst 14, Williams 12 Bennington votes for Amherst Alabama 13, Georgia Tech 7 "I'm a ramblin'' wrock" North Carolina 20, Duke 14 Sweet Lalanne Ohio State 7, Illinois 6 "We're loyal to you Illinois," but. .. L.S.U. 16, Auburn 7 No strike today Tennessco 28, Vanderbilt 0 Tops--even without Cafego Purdue 7, Wisconsin 0 Too many guns for weak Badgers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL SCORES FOR TODAY'S GAMES | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

Harvard 7Army 6 Yale 14 Brown 10 Princeton 13 Dartmouth 7 Tulane 13 Alabama 0 Holy Cross 14 Temple 0 Boston College 12 Detroit 7 Cincinnati 14 Boston University 6 Cornell 14 Colgate 0 Tennessee 33 Citadel 0 Northwestern 13 Purdue 7 Carnegie Tech 7 Pittsburgh 0 Minnesota 14 Michigan 13 Ohio State 51 Chicago 0 U.S.C. 14 Stanford 0 Texas Aggies 14 South'n M'th'dist 10 Illinois 7 Wisconsin 0 Pennsylvania 20 Penn State 0 North Carolina 26 Davidson 7 Notre Dame 14 Iowa 13 Kontucky 14 Georgla Tech 7 Missouri 19 N.Y.U. 7 Navy 6 Columbia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Scores | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

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