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Word: calif (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rambling white house near Culver City, Calif, last month went a vice squad from the sheriff's office in Los Angeles County. They went to investigate reports that the place was a gambling establishment. What made this raid of possibly international consequence was that the house was the Luxembourg Consulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Hell for the Duchess | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...American Independence League to keep the U. S. out cf war, quickly dispatched letters of correspondence to other colleges. On some 300 campuses, undergraduates signed up for the Federal Government's new pilot training courses. Among them, because they wanted to fly, too, were girls at Mills College (Calif.) and Lake Erie College (Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unique Burden | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 22, blond, brilliant violinist, and Nola Nicholas Menuhin, 20; a daughter; in San Francisco, Calif. The child, which weighed six pounds, twelve ounces, was given the name Zamira. the Russian word for Peace. Said Father Yehudi, who had watched the operation with a surgical mask over his face: "I want the baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Lionel Hallam Lord Tennyson, 49, cricketing grandson of Poet Alfred Tennyson and author of From Verse to Worse; by Lady Tennyson, 35; in Redwood City, Calif. Grounds: "grievous mental suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Bakersfield, Calif., Jacqueline Cochran, wife of Tycoon Floyd Bostwick Odium (Atlas Corp.), broke her own record for the loo-kilometer airplane course, set a new mark of 286,418 m. p. h. In Manhattan, Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, ex-wife of Tycoon Odium, celebrated her fifth year as smart president of smart Bonwit Teller's store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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