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Word: armes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thorndike, who examined the arm, said that it would not be safe to play until the ligaments were completely mended, for fear of a dislocation. The injury occured at Cornell Tuesday night, when an opposing player accidentally yanked Lowman's wrist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INJURED SHOULDER MAY KEEP LOWMAN OUT OF QUAKER TILT | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

Shortly before her death "by accident" in Vilna, Dzjunka betrayed Rasonski to Napoleon as a Russian spy. When her confession of this brought from Rasonski only an affectionate squeeze of the arm, even Dzjunka had to admit that her husband's masochistic gallantry had attained heroic pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slippery Pole | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Minor officers of the University may have disregarded this policy, to be sure, but similarly members of the union have forgotten their organization's protests of good faith. In the last four months, strong-arm methods of recruiting members have become increasingly popular at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE TACTICS OF HOODLUMS" | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

...That obedient arm of Josef Stalin's foreign policy, the U. S. Communist Party, is so enthusiastic about Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy that Earl Browder described the U. S. line of defense in the New Republic last week as "Manila, Honolulu and Nome." Indeed, the No. 1 U.S. Communist let down his hair to the extent of declaring that only courageous action on the part of the President could save from catastrophe ''our country and all the capitalist world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Second to None | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...peddling trips to the South, his sensitive daughter Louisa got her initiation into the great world in a Civil War hospital, where, in her first hour on duty, her patient died, and where she tried to lessen a soldier's agony by reciting Dickens to him while his arm was being amputated without an anesthetic. Bronson Alcott returned from his trips across the U. S. in times of peace, usually broke but refreshed and inspired; his daughter came home from her glimpse of the wartime U. S. sick, neurotic, her health permanently affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alcotts | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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