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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lkischer Beobachter's Munich correspondent Wilhelm Kaffl later described the scene in the beer hall at that very moment: "I stood on the ramp of the gallery overlooking the room crowded with brown and green uniforms. Groups had formed here and there, laughing, talking and exchanging greetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Toffi," as she is also called, sat looking pleased with herself, on a front bench at the justice's right. A stumpy, determined, middle-aged woman, she wisely wore a quiet black dress and small black hat with large black velvet snood into which she tucked her mouse-brown hair. Her attorney, King's Counsel Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, opened cautiously by tracing events back twelve years to his client's first meeting with Lord Rothermere. The Viscount, he declared, "told the Princess in 1927 that he had decided to work for the restoration of the Hohenzollern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mystery Woman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...years there have been some great doings. In 1859 a band of 100 cadets trooped to Charles Town to witness the hanging of an indiscreet fanatic named John Brown. In 1861 a 37-year-old instructor quit his ten-year job at V. M. I., went off to become Stonewall Jackson, the Great Hope of the South. The school graduated 823 men who became officers in the Confederate Army, ranking from major general to second lieutenant. The entire cadet corps rushed to New Market to help check the Union advance through Shenandoah Valley. Union troops later burned their school buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Absentee | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Clicking with championship precision throughout the first half, the Crimson booters ran up a 4 to 0 lead on a weak Brown team Saturday afternoon and succeeded in maintaining it to the end of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Booters Gain 4-0 Win In Tilt with Poor Brown Team | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Friday the team meets the strong Eli outfit, whose record is only marred by one defeat and one tie. The Yale eleven trounced Brown 8 to 0 in one of the first games of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Booters Gain 4-0 Win In Tilt with Poor Brown Team | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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