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Word: 134th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trafalgar Day (Oct. 21), 134th anniversary of Lord Nelson's smashing of Napoleon's Navy, brought out 215,231 boys between 20 and 22 to register for military service in England, Scotland and Wales.* Only 4,556 declared themselves "conchies" (conscientious objectors). War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha radiorated: "This is not a war about a map. It is a fight to reestablish the conditions under which nations and individuals including, may I say, the German nation and individuals-can live and live again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Bearskins at Home | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Middlebury College will be host to President Lowell on Monday, June 11, When he will give the 134th annual commencement address before a graduating class of about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell To Speak | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...Observation's victims were brought to the ferry house at 134th St. In that same place 28 years ago were laid out the bodies of 1,021 children, teachers, parents who. bound on a Sunday-school picnic, were burned or drowned when the excursion steamer General Slocum caught fire a few hundred feet away. Next to the General Slocum, the Observation took its place as the greatest marine disaster around New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Second Greatest | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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