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Word: bunkered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Conant rode into University Hall two years ago like Paul Revere, keen observers predicted a Harvard Revolution. They were right. Returning graduates will find that the modern Yankee has won decisively at Bunker Hill and Saratoga and that another Yorktown is only a few years distant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. CONANT RIDES TO CONCORD | 6/19/1935 | See Source »

...walk out of my hotel and in five minutes I think I am back in the country." Boston and Washington are her favorite American cities. "There are so many historical points I wanted to see, the first day, all I did was to run around asking people where Bunker Hill was, or where Paul Revere started riding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tallulah Bankhead Says Censoring of Films Silly as Trying to Outlaw Gin | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

...voice is rich and clear. He plays and sings with his eyes closed, taps single time with one foot, triple with the other. He claims that most of his songs are his own. He sang about when "me and a bunch of cowboys had that famous battle on Bunker Hill," and again about the Negro who "throwed his jelly* out of the window.' The minstrel was proudest when he chanted the petition which won him his first pardon. The refrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Murderous Minstrel | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...chairman of the Board of Regents of the University, and it was to him in 1904 that Caetani had come seeking employment mining lead ore (not gold) with a letter of introduction from John Hays Hammond. Mr. Easton was at that time vice president and general manager of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining Co. at Kellogg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1934 | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...Kansas City divorce action. Daisy-&-Violet Hilton argued last week that they knew what they were doing about marriage. They cited Chang-&-Eng, the actual Siamese whom P. T. Barnum made so famed that all conjoined twins thenceforth have been called "Siamese." Chang-&-Eng (1811-74) took the name Bunker and married daughters of David Yates, North Carolina minister. The wives kept separate domiciles in which the brothers took turns living. Chang had ten children, Eng nine. Their descendants are reported still living in the Piedmont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pygopagus Marriage | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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