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Word: backing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There, he settled down to a judgeship, and never went back to Utopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Trees | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Woodman Webb said he would spare the trees for 30 days, to give Rugby's friends time to buy the land back. His price, including the trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Trees | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Once, he said, they went back to a rendezvous to get some pillows left there on a previous tryst. "When I returned to the car she had stripped off her clothing ... it was a beautiful moonlit night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Classroom Casanova | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...next dawn. While Lucas Zamora, the Mexican yard man, hung precariously in the tops of the live oaks, hacking out deadwood, and "Bertie," the cook, bustled about the kitchen "fixin' company dinner"; while Mrs. Ettie Garner tended her correspondence in the little office-house in the back yard; in the Garner garage Uvalde's garageman, Ross Brumfield, for 20 years the "Boss's" hunting companion, stowed away hunting gear in Mr. Garner's 1926 Chevrolet roadster-only car the wealthy banker-cattleman owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: On the Hunt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Said Mrs. Garner: "They're hunting deer as usual. [But] I'm hoping they'll bring back a turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: On the Hunt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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