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Word: adams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After five hours the Bordens were turned loose and in pitch darkness struggled back along a lonely road toward Istanbul. By extreme good luck they met Adam Cieminsky, clerk of the U. S. Military Attaché at Istanbul, and from that instant things moved fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Slaying & Stripping | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...Japanese were all brought up to believe Adam Smith and the Manchester School [of economics]. The fact that Britain has adopted a quota system, which is usually a device of countries unable to face competition, has made a certain impression on the Japanese who had been accustomed to regard Britain as a great trading nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Keeper of Peace | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...then he has held many a sonorous title of high command: Director of Naval Intelligence, Naval Attache at the American Embassy, Commander of Destroyer Squadrons in the Battle Fleet, Director of Fleet Training, Vice Admiral in Command of Battleships, Admiral in Command of the Battle Force. The grandsons of Adam Gimbel Bavarian Jew who set up as storekeeper in Vincennes, Ind. in 1842, now control one of the largest department store chains in the U. S. Gimbel Brothers. Inc. has stores in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee and three in Manhattan. Even in 1932 Gimbel's could afford to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...Princess and the Frog King" (Overture, "Si j'etais Roi")Adam Has Wiener an Dance Group "The Street Dancers' ("Blues") Krenek Hans Wiener and Kay Pope "The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker" Strauss ("Night in Venice," Overture) Hans Wiener and Dance Group Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hans Wiener and his Dance Group | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...just heard another story about our football hero, Mike Adlis. It seems that the youthful protege of Coach Adam Walsh was approached at the end of spring football practice by Field Event Coach Jaako Mikkola about joining the ranks of weight tossers. "You are pretty well set up, Mike. How about coming out for track?" queried the interested Jaako...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So the Story Goes . . . | 4/21/1934 | See Source »

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