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Word: brien (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Campion, who was injured in the Navy game, and Dick Lewis, who has been suffering from a severe cold, it is quite likely that the team will make a better showing. HARVARD TUFTS Brecker, g. g., Urbon Livingston, Wilcox, pt. pt., Kempton Maguin, Ferris c.p. c. pt. O'Brien, Silva Bloter, ld. ld., Hammond Baker, Blanchard, Tanner 2d. 2d., Dolben Downey, Doughty, Flinn, c, c., Conforti Willard, Holstead, Sullivan, Bird, 2a. 2a., Gould, Yale Hunraker, la. la., Sullivan (Capt.) Cleveland, Shepard, o.h. o.h., Barselow, Speare, Williams Hammond, Gordon, ih. i.h., Bounakes, Beckford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Lacrosse Squad Defeats Tufts | 4/21/1938 | See Source »

...months ago the Catholic Worker founded a Catholic Union of Unemployed, whose head is another onetime Communist, 30-year-old Tim O'Brien. Most C. U. U. members are old, and ineligible for relief because they are transients. The C. U. U.'s program, like that of the Catholic Worker, is intended to comply with papal teachings, "to bring all men back to Christ." Specifically, it advocates: a back-to-the-land movement; worker-ownership and "equitable distribution of the fruits of man's labor"; public ownership of public utilities; parish cooperatives, co-operative hostels and workshops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Christ the Worker | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Women Are Like That (Warner Bros.) dawdles drearily with the problem of getting Actor Pat O'Brien off a Scotch-&-soda diet and back into the advertising game. Droopy Actress Kay Francis models a few notable Orry-Kelly costumes, drops innumerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Last February the New York Legislature modified the insurance code again: Till 1943, by the O'Brien-Piper Bill, insurance companies can once again invest in low-cost housing. But the amount of rent they can charge this time is not specified. Metropolitan apartments will undoubtedly rent for more than $9 a room. Truly low-cost housing, with the price of building materials and building labor as high as it is now, will continue for a while to be built by the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: $35,000,000 in The Bronx | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Less concerned with the strength of the brew than with his place at table, Warner Crooner Dick Powell this week refused to play in The Garden of the Moon because Actor Pat O'Brien had a better role than his. For Crooner Powell: twelve weeks' suspension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rebellion | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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