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Word: 21st (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus bouncing around on the trunk rack the would-be assassin of the next President rode first to the hospital to unload his victims, then to Miami's skyscraper jail where he was stripped and safely locked up on the 21st floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Escape | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

...soon found her married life was to have no pretense of love, not even (until Louis finally consented to an operation) a chance of children. Though scandal surrounded her, Biographer Anthony thinks it was baseless rumor. Marie did have expensive tastes, however, and loved cards. The evening before her 21st birthday she played faro continuously for 36 hours. One lover (Biographer Anthony thinks) Marie Antoinette did have: discreet, able Count Axel Fersen, a Swede who served two and one-half years in the U.S. Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cradle to Guillotine | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Engaged. John Jacob Astor III, 20, posthumous son of John Jacob Astor (drowned on S. S. Titanic), $3,000,000 heir on his 21st birthday; and Donna Cristiana Torlonia, Manhattan socialite, daughter of Rome's Prince Marino TorIonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 6, 1933 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...eggs. Hatched into spider-food, these would provide strength for indefinite spinning. Not, however, if Agent G. W. Dilley of Akron's Humane Society could prevent it. He announced he would let Dr. Kraatz observe the spider one more week, then ask that it be freed. On the 21st day the spider curled up its legs, spun no more. Dr. Kraatz thought it had gone into hibernation, said it might last all winter if kept warm. Superintendent Dilley still protested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cannibal in a Clock | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...Note: Professor Holcombe is supporting Roosevelt in the coming election. His interpretation of the undergraduate poll may be found in the CRIMSON of Friday, October 21st...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Acute Open-Mindedness | 11/1/1932 | See Source »

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