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Word: straighter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard students stand straighter, have better muscular co-ordination today than their predecessors in the period just after the war. Such is the conclusion reached by Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education, in a survey of research and training programs, extending over a period of 20 years in University service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sudden Increase In Student Posture Ratings Result of Physical Training | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

...town of Frostproof rates Ca (one notch above worthless). Last week 500 delegates to the annual Conference of the Municipal Finance Officers' Association sat down in St. Paul's Hotel Lowry to investigate the whys & wherefores of such sorry ratings, learn how to steer a straighter course through Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Aaa and Baa | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...aboard the freighters themselves, was the riskiest job of all. So Rex transferred to that branch. When he met Corra, the beautiful wife of an anemic New York newspaper man, he was tempted for the first time to accept a commission. Instead he decided merely to shoot straighter thereafter. But one day Corra announced bitterly that her husband had tuberculosis and she could not leave him. Rex cut his leave short, took tfiie first boat leaving, an old freighter which was practically made to order for Submarines. When a U-boat showed up, Rex did the best he could with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Submarine Fighter | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum would lend it momentum, not even a publisher could predict. Sympathetic critics, just emerging from their cyclone cellars, wished Author Gordon luck but had to admit that None Shall Look Back, though it blew a neater, straighter course than its circling predecessor, could not be rated a first-class gale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After the Big Wind | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Sunflower Special sped eastward, the Nominee was nursing a cold and sore throat. But at Tucumcari, N. Mex., stung to fighting pitch by his Los Angeles booing and by recent Roosevelt speeches, disputing virtually every one of the President's tax points. Alf Landon struck harder and straighter at Franklin Roosevelt than ever before, accused him of "misrepresenting" the facts, went on to assert: "He is using the people's money directly and indirectly to secure his re-election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Last Lap | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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