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Word: accidentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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I further suggest that the "million U. S. taxpayers" who, like myself, have long awaited news of this inevitable accident contribute to a fund to erect a monument commemorating the spot. What would be more fitting than to have Ellis Colvin pose for the sculptor, assuming the position he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

To Ellis Colvin. 46. WTA client on duty in a gravel pit at Sycamore, Ill., last week came the industrial accident which a million U. S. taxpayers have feared was inevitable among WPA's hordes of shovel men: while leaning at a comfortable incline with his legs crossed and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Occupational Hazard | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

In the main event, the 250-target all-gauge shoot, a comparative oldster of 28, Henry Bourne Joy Jr.. turned in an extraordinary performance-a perfect score of 250, something that had never been done before. Skeeter Joy, son of the late Henry B. Joy, onetime president of Packard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skeeters | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Railroadmen thought the accident might have been due to insufficient water in the boiler. Last week the disabled locomotive stood boarded up at Xenia, Ohio, awaiting inspection by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: On the Selma Grade | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

As ultrashort waves pass through the atmosphere beyond the horizon, they encounter a constantly varying complex of atmospheric conditions. They are bent, reflected, shifted with every change in the constantly shifting atmosphere, like spray from a hose in the hands of a drunken gardener. Such waves hit a receiving antenna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Wave Focus | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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