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Word: plaines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while "Plain Talk" is selling its extra editions and other periodicals are playing follow the lewder in the same field, Boston has lost sight of one essential fact. The mud that has been thrown at it could be hurled with equal and even more exactitude at the other metropolises of the East. It is absurd to say that Boston is the bawdiest of cities for it ranks only eighth in population. Unless "Plain Talk" can produce per capita statistics for indulgence in vice showing that five out of five in Boston deserve the scarlet letter, one should continue to believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASTING THE STONES | 1/9/1930 | See Source »

...Cagle threw a 19-yard pass to Hutchinson which gained another. Stanford's mammoth Fleishhacker and agile Smalling each smashed across and Stanford also made a safety. First half score: Stanford, 14; Army, 13. Then the men in cardinal and white began drubbing the men in gold. Reverses, plain, fancy and bogus-elaborate new maneuvers by Coach Glenn ("Pop") Warner-carried the Stanford team three times to the Army goal. Twice again Chuck Smalling bashed across; once again Fleishhacker asserted his 220 pounds. Smalling left the field with an ovation such as his great Stanford fullback forerunner, Ernie Nevers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stanford v. Army | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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