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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that these lines fly mostly at night, usually in filthy weather, over terrain which alternates fantastic Chinese-print mountains with treacherous rice-paddy terraces, they have had no serious accidents which were not brought on by Japanese guns. Because traditional modes of transportation in free China-oxcart, ass, camel, over miserable roads-are unbearably slow, and because trucks so often break down in Chinese hands, these lines are so heavily booked that some passengers have to wait a month for a seat. The planes are always filled to maximum capacity. Eurasia flies Junkers, C. N. A. C. flies Douglases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Route, New Factory | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Apparently the anti-evolutionist demands to see a monkey or an ass transformed into a man, though he must be familiar enough with the reverse process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...conjugation: je m'assisse, tu t'assisses, il s'assît, nous nous assissions, vous vous assis-siez, ils s'assissent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Course au Tr | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...McHugh, Ass't. Sr. Tutor: Tues. 2:30-4:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSULTATION HOURS FOR HOUSE APPLICANTS | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...McHugh, Ass't. Sr. Tutor: Tues. 2:30-4:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSULTATION HOURS FOR HOUSE APPLICANTS | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

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