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Word: accidentally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Popular Pitcher. Thinnest, blondest member of Manager Joe McCarthy's Yankees, Vernon Gomez has succeeded in his profession largely by accident. His father, Francisco Gomez, was a rancher and rodeo performer who settled in Rodeo, Calif. There Vernon was born in 1910. At 13, Vernon Gomez hoped to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mid-Season | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

Last week's fleet in their blue water race failed to encounter a mysterious school of whales reported by a fishing captain off the New Jersey coast, reported no fatalities. Most serious accident was one which befell Mason B. Rumney on the Baccarat. When a large wave hit the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blue Water Race | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

Wheeonk, blared the bugle of Dr. Walter Baker. The band struck up the "Sidewalks of New York." Cornell-Rockefeller Hospitals' entry, Bronx Cheer (by Simple Simon, out of the East River), was coming into the ring. The white-trousered, white-skirted crowd pressed closer, gabbled excitedly. Was it true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Turtle Derby | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

Son of a waterfront barkeep in Texas City, Tex., Jimmy Wedell got no further in school than the ninth grade. A boyhood motorcycle accident blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Death of Wedell | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

Harvard's James Bryant Conant: A person deserves little praise for his talents, which are probably as much of an accident as the muscles of his arms. There are rascals in all walks of life, and we may indulge in the pleasure of condemning them all heartily. Let us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Presidents' Words | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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