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Word: bows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife of the Prime Minister who pressured him off the throne. With his chin well out, the Duke was said to have introduced his lady to their visitors as "Her Royal Highness." The tall Prime Minister and the taller Foreign Secretary acknowledged, but scarcely confirmed this title with a bow. Later Paris socialites, abuzz over this first meeting since the abdication between the Duke and top-rank British officials, speculated whether the Ministers had thus tacitly recognized the royal status of the Duchess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ladies | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

PHILADELPHIA--Villanova College, chagrined because its undefeated but tied Wildeats were not offered any of the larger football "Bow" bids, today refused an invitation to meet Texas Tech in the Cotton Bow at Dallas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 12/1/1938 | See Source »

...American public should bow in shame for they betrayed the world in a manner that has never been equaled when their President planned the League of Nations, then flatly refused to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Spouting such claims in a rival blare of oratory is not the only string to the chains' bow. A. & P. pays an average of $30 a week to managers and clerks, compared to the Department of Labor's figure of $22 for all retail stores. In their Public Statement in September the Brothers Hartford declared that passage of the Patman bill would put 1,000,000 men out of work. Meanwhile, with little fanfare, A. & P. agreed to place all its outside printing contracts in union shops. Promptly the A. F. of L. announced that it was against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Colorado No | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Neither wild horses nor galloping consumption nor a hurricane could keep Vag from the Yale Bowl tomorrow afternoon. He must be there to see the final football bow of these Seniors who, with their capable Junior and Sophomore compatriots, will go "all out" for Dick--and for the rest of us who are Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

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