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Word: ashed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through cheering crowds Victor Roosevelt drove to the Capitol to start his mopping up. At the side door of the House wing, he shed his silk topper, his dark overcoat and revealed himself in his new uniform, a handsome ash-grey cutaway with trousers to match. The White House secretariat-Son James, Stephen Early, Marvin Mclntyre-racked their toppers in a row on the trunk behind the Presidential tonneau. and the official party entered the Capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mopping Up | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Over 1,216½ acres of what had been for years either swamp or unregenerate dump heap, squads of workers have been plowing and digging 24 hours a day since last June. Their job is to transfer about 7,000,000 cubic yards of ashes from the ash dunes of Flushing and Riker's Island to the swamps nearby, leveling off and grading a Fair ground. By day the dust clouds of their operations can be seen from the offices of the World's Fair Corporation designers on the 80th floor of the Empire State Building four miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fair Bonds | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

What is really worrying the coaches now is the position of goalguard. With no lettermen returning, Coach Canterbury will have to develop one of the eight reporting to fill the shoes of Ash Emerson. George Mahoney and Nort Kidder were the net minders for the Jayvees last year and would seem to have the edge so far, but either Dave Wilder, Alex Irving, Jack Allen, Bill Kerr, or Dave Mittell all in the Sohphomore class, may prove the answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

Critics and admirers may respect Eliot's later, purportedly religious poems, such as Ash Wednesday, but what will stick with them will be gobbets of his earlier verse, such as the closing lines of The Hollow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royalist, Classicist, Anglo-Catholic | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

This instance of suppression of free speech and terrorization should be brought before every university in the country today. No more flagrant example of intimidation has assailed the nostrils of American colleges in years and the action taken by the Carolina House should be relegated to the same ash-can as Representative Dorgan's fatnous attempt at self-immortalization, the Teacher's Oath Bill and his subsequent measures to clean up the impure allusions in Hamlet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FREE SPEECH IN CAROLINA" | 4/24/1936 | See Source »

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