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Word: beaches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) One day last week a bather at Bethany Beach, Del. walked into the surf wearing his wrist watch. The salt water all but ruined the watch but did not harm the bather. For sea baths, sunshine and rest in company with his wife were decidedly good for General Hugh S. Johnson?all the better because, as the watch incident showed, he was still preoccupied with business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Mixed Doubles | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...United Pressman cornered him as he returned from a walk on the beach with two neighborhood children. Standing on the sand, wearing a blue shirt open at the throat, blue trousers, white shoes and no socks, the NRAdministrator unburdened his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Mixed Doubles | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

Meanwhile President Roosevelt, sweltering in the White House Blue Room which lacks the cooling facilities of his regular office, was at work on more measures, fallible in origin but divine in purpose. NRA make-over took much of his time. General Johnson had gone off to Bethany Beach, Del. for a two-week rest and left the President's ear open to Donald Richberg and Madam Secretary Perkins. So significant did newshawks deem the situation that some reported the General's resignation while others telephoned to Bethany Beach to ask him whether he had had a break with his associates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Divine Purposes | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...musty corner of a Long Beach, Calif, garage last week was fought another newsworthy battle when a deadly black-widow spider met a venomous scorpion three times her size and weight. Taking the upper hand at the start, the spider slowly spun sticky strands about the scorpion's forelegs, pinioned one of its knifelike pincers. By the second day odds among the scores of spectators who thronged the garage were 4-to-1 on the spider, with few takers. On the third day the spider began to enmesh the scorpion's stinger in her web, boosted betting odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Snake, Spiders, Scorpion | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...hands of contractors, ready for razing, was Palm Beach's straggling yellow 40-year-old Royal Poinciana, most famed of Florida hotels, largest frame building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 27, 1934 | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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