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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council on which Territorial (National Guard) officers would sit for the first time, increased pay and better living conditions for both officers and men. The equivalent of reviving David Lloyd George's War-time Ministry of Munitions, Secretary Hore-Belisha achieved by appointing Vice Admiral Sir Harold Arthur Brown, Director General of Munitions Production, to the additional post of Master General of the Ordnance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Belisha Purge | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Including only one meet away from Cambridge, the Freshman swimming schedule as announced by Yardling Coach Pete Peterson is: Dec. 16, Y. M. C. A.; Jan. 8, Gardner High School; Jan. 15, Worcester Boys Club; Jan 19, Brown Freshmen; Feb. 9, Boston Boys Club; Feb. 12, Exeter; Feb. 15, M. I. T. Freshmen; Feb. 19, Dartmouth Freshmen; Feb. 26, Andover; March 2, Huntington School; March 5, Brookline High School; March 12, Yale Freshmen at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peterson Announces Program Of Freshman Merman Meets | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

...three million brown muskrats are caught annually by fur companies like Orange Cameron Land Co. in the Louisiana bayous, the great U. S. muskrat country. Their pelts retail at from 50? to $1.25., But prime muskrat is black muskrat, whose native habitat is around the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and whose pelts bring $2. With the money he got for his trap factory Mr. Gibbs promptly bought 3,000 acres of muskrat marsh on Currituck Sound, N. C., began transferring his black muskrats south. More than half the 2,400 muskrats he caught alive in Maryland last year he shipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trapper | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS - Edited by Christopher Morley & Louella D. Everett-Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Morley's Revisions | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Dubbed an "unnecessary frill" by the Colony's critics, the prison debating team last year trounced M. I. T. Later in the season the convict debaters will wage verbal war with Brown and M. I. T. among other opponents. All the debates have been at the prison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Face Norfolk Prison Team Sunday | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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