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Word: followance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of narcotics a year, served a vast territory. Most surprising fact: that healthy, husky Texas is a dopey State. Rated next to Kansas City as consuming centres were Galveston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston. Nor is this because of the Mexican population. Texas has oil. Prostitutes follow oil workers. Dope goes with prostitutes. Most Texas addicts are Anglo-Saxons, some are children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: First Floor Cleaned | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Such footnotes on the American temperament seem characteristic rather than unique in The Oregon Trail. As readers follow the footprints of their forbears over the plains they get a warm picture of them-a great people for carving their names on rocks and monuments, as if determined to leave some mark on the face of their enormous country; violent but good-natured, naive but shrewd, poetic without knowing it, unintimidated by distance and too engrossed in their struggles with nature to bear grudges for long. And at the end of the 2,000-mile road they can understand William Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Highway | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...that the Council take every sport individually, study it, consult captains, players, coaches, Bingham, Samborski, and House secretaries until they know what they are talking about, and then, resisting the impulse to generalize, confine themselves to specific recommendations for each sport. I believe more progress and less furor would follow. John M. Barnaby, Coach Tennis and Squash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

Author of many books including the recently published "Puritan in Babylon," White will broadcast his Monday lecture and two others which follow on Tuesday and Monday, May 1 internationally by the non-commercial short wave station WIXAR, companion station to WIXAL, of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITE TO LECTURE ON WEST | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

They are ready today, but the worth of their cures will only be seen with the actions which follow. And America will follow the race, and undoubtedly--for we say this every year--the season will end with the subway series, a Boston dime as opposed to the New York nickel, between the Boston Bees and the Red Sox. For it could happen. The Yankees might be train wrecked, or drafted, or something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMS AND THE FAN | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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