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Word: acree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, remote and mum, the Vice President hunted deer and superintended the digging of two new wells on his 23,000-acre ranch in Webb Countv.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Out for Deer | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Last week in Millbrook (Little, Brown. $2.50) Author Lutes continued her homely reminiscences. In this volume her hardbitten, hard-eating, yo-year-old father has moved to a small 30-acre farm on the edge of a little village. It tells less about cooking, more about people, their gossip, scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nostalgia | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

The shallow rivers of Britain's twelve-by-42-mile Caribbean paradise swelled over their banks, and many of St. Lucia's native blacks hastily abandoned their plantation huts, moved their wives & children up the sides of the valleys to what they thought was safety. No sooner had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH WEST INDIES: Rain | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Uprooting all vegetation, burying all life in its wake, the avalanche ploughed through rich plantations, removed whole hamlets from the face of the island. Few in the wall's path had time to escape. Injured victims of previous smaller slides were caught, their legs and arms torn from their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH WEST INDIES: Rain | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Fourteen miles east of Puerto Rico's San Juan harbor is the wooded, 36-acre island of Santiago. There 500 macaques, or rhesus monkeys, landed last week, having voyaged 14,000 miles from India in 51 days. Columbia University intends to establish on Santiago a "free-ranging primate colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Macaques to Santiago | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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