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Word: armageddons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact at first sight enthusiasm, fire, or whatever they call the ingredients vital to successful participation in this modern Armageddon, seems to be all there is to the game. But that's not so, there's a lot of science that goes along with the readiness to battle. And that can be proved by the team's Southern vacation trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/17/1937 | See Source »

...millenium will be preceded by the second battle of Armageddon in 1959 in which many men will be killed off. The millenium then will consist in having 18 women for every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Globe-Trotting Divine Messengers Here to Warn Conant on Millenium in 1966 | 3/19/1937 | See Source »

...airplane, giving an excellent panorama of the Orient. Reproductions of the Tower of Babel and of Solomon's stables; the great art and architecture of the Palace of Darias; the hundred-foot-high Arch of Gtesiphon, which has withstood the storms of two thousand years; weapons used at Armageddon long before St. John's famous prophecy--scenes like these more than make up for the inevitable shots of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the pyramids of the Pharaohs, and the ridiculous dances of the expedition's native workmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/25/1937 | See Source »

...music" which consists of combinations of colors. He once offered to do the Hindu rope trick in London's Albert Hall for $275,000. He has invented a thought-reading machine called a psychostethokyrtographmanometer which he intends to demonstrate in the U. S. this year. He believes Armageddon may come in 1937. Like many another prominent mystic, he has no sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Miracle Man | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...theme song of the Spanish-American War, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, lent itself naturally to the 1904 campaign of Theodore Roosevelt, but eight years later, for his Bull Moose campaign at "Armageddon," his marching song was Onward Christian Soldiers. In the intervening campaign, won by Taft in 1908, his lady admirers sang: Taft for Me, Taft for Me to the tune of Tammany. Woodrow Wilson scorned campaign songs, but in 1916 he was forced to listen often to I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harlem Prodigy | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

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