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Word: true (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a hard morning in the class-room, the booth-dwellers return to their habitat feeling at case with the familiar wooden support behind them. No true "jellier" ever sits at a table in the middle of the floor, only booths give him that protected feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

...situation in the line is considerably better. Chief loss for Saturday's game is Barnes, who has been out with a pulled muscle all week. Into his place at right end stops Chester Jenks, whose chief short-coming seems to be lack of experience, a deficiency generally true of St. Paul's alumni because of their intramural sports policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEAKENED '43 TEAM FACES WORCESTER | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...spokesman for the League said last night that "despite published reports in New York papers, it is not true that any of the pamphlets were burned; Lowell House, where the burning was supposed to have taken place, has no furnace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Y. C. L. TO DISTRIBUTE FOLDER THROUGH MAIL | 10/11/1939 | See Source »

...train at Seattle one day last week stepped plump, upright Philip A. Benson, president of Brooklyn's big Dime Savings Bank. To nosy newshawks who asked him if it was true that bankers started wars he retorted: "Hooey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Small-Town Banker? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...eyed Jewish Comedian Eddie Cantor made a personal appearance at Pittsburgh's First Baptist Church, preached on Christianity and Democracy. Excerpt: "Christianity and Democracy go hand in hand. Go to church and practice true Christianity, because edifices like the one we are in tonight will live long after Hitler and Stalin are forgotten. Some one should tell those two birds that you can't put God in a concentration camp. To my humble way of thinking, there are too many Gentiles in the world and not enough Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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