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Word: aqua (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Sunday the Governor traveled to Philadelphia to see a fete on the Schuylkill River in which comic divers and aqua-pianists performed. He watched and grinned, then soberly declared: "Those clowns gave me my first laugh in two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Labor Governor | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas," said Ovid, and he must have been right. At any rate, one of the more overstimulated spectators of Saturday's debacle went after the sweet water of the Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Act of Heroism Performed on Charles as Dare-Devil Rescues Goalpost From a Watery Grave | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

Jubilantly Norwegian tories toasted Major Quisling in scorching aqua vitae. His new Nazi Party had won not a single seat but the scare he had managed to throw into Labor they called, not without reason, a thumping Nazi victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Quisling Victory | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...natators in the Indoor Athletic Pool Building, taking the short end of a 40 to 21 score. The Leverett House aggregation was slated to meet Dunster House, but was obliged to take on the 1936 seconds since the latter House was unable to raise enough men to form an aqua- tic team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/15/1932 | See Source »

...exhibition of etchings, lithographs, and aqua-tints is being held by the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, and will continue until May 15 is their display rooms at 1400 Massachusetts avenue. The exhibition includes works of American, Mexican, English and French artists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ART SOCIETY DISPLAYS COSMOPOLITAN WORKS | 5/5/1931 | See Source »

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