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Word: somehow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both the Yard and the pigeons were equally unexciting the other morning, Vag felt unpleasantly nomadic; therefore he climbed the steps of Appleton, leaned his head against one of the massive pillars, and fell into deep thought. Somehow Vag began to think about Shakespeare. Probably this was because of a remark made by one of his instructors which seemed to stick in his mind. The instructor had said with great fervor and obvious fondness for the great poet that Shakespeare is as much alive today as he was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Exciting--Vag thought--if the immortal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...next few weeks. So much is drifting in for the various House dances, balls, and Fall proms that this reviewer's arches ache at the thought. Our pen Horace wants to know just how in the blue blazes we are going to be three places at once tonight; but somehow it's going to have to be done. Van Alexander is at the Adams House dance, Bob Crosby at the Harvard-Dartmouth Ballroom at the Somerset, and Bunny Berigan is at the Southland--each one worth hearing...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

Clarence June, Michigan swamp farmer, had a wife, ten children, a cow, and a house (one-room). But somehow life had begun to pall on him. His friend, George Davis, Flint factory worker, with a wife and four small daughters, was bored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boredom in Michigan | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...plugged 14, and full-fledged members eventually cost their parents a pretty penny. But parents tolerate him because he inveighs against such social errors as nail biting, gulping, temper, socking, preaches a series of corrective little stories involving two hypothetical and unruly tikes named Willapuss-Wallapuss and Suzan-Beduzin. Somehow all this is as beguiling to children as bubblegum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snork, Punk | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

From the some home-town, from the same school, and in the same class with Lee, comes the other starting Sophomore back, Charley Spreyer. Unlike Lee in temperament, Spreyer seems easy-going on the field; but somehow he's always there. He's the Larry Kelley type of "clutch" player, without Kelley's objectionable trimmings. At fullback he won't spin and run like Vern Struck, but he'll kick like George Roberts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

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