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Word: cap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Austin Eugene Lathrop, a building contractor turned shipmaster, sailed to Alaska from Puget Sound in the small steam schooner L. J. Perry. He sailed right into the Klondike gold rush. Instead of turning to pick & pan, however, Cap Lathrop stuck to his bridge and toted prospectors and their pokes. Nowadays, in rich Central Alaska, stout, furrowed, 73-year-old Cap Lathrop is the head man. He owns a big salmon cannery, a bank, a coal mine, an airplane hangar, three cinemas, two newspapers, a general store, apartment houses, and is a member of the Board of Regents of University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cheechako Radio | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...scholastic cap and gown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MILLENIUM | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

That afternoon the Royal pair stole away for a stroll in the fields outside Ottawa, encountered a small boy who doffed his cap and ran away when the Queen introduced him to his King. That night they went to another State dinner, at Château Laurier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...either. Actor Muni has never been so impressive as he is in outfacing an armed camp of rebels; Actress Davis' mad scene is real cinematic excitement. And for Warners' star biographer, Director William Dieterle, Juárez is a bright new feather in an already well-decorated cap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Head of the University Police revealed that his men had confiscated the "props" when the girls were discovered clambering over the University Hall statue in the rosy hour before dawn. The girls had been released, but the cap, gown, hoop, a Wellesley banner, and a large violet "W" were held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COL APTED AWAITS RETURN OF WELLESLEY PRANK-PULLERS | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

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