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Word: cap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Churchill, Canada's new wheat port on Hudson Bay (TIME, Sept. 14), 30 men meet regularly for jump-bids and approach-forces throughout the winter. For one of these there had to be a substitute last week; Arsene Turquetil had laid aside his cards, put on his fur cap and gone down south to Montreal. Arsene Turquetil was hard to replace. He is not only a good bridge player; he is also a good shot, a fine musher, and Canada's famed, revered ''Arctic Bishop." He was going to Montreal to be consecrated as Vicar Apostolic of Hudson Bay which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Arctic Bishop | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...rear in a procession of type pictures is sure to be at a disadvantage, whether it be of the gangster, or convict genre. When all the cards have been played, there is little novelty to be gained by reshuffling. Only rarely can a film like "Hell's Angels" cap all that has gone before...

Author: By G. G. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/5/1932 | See Source »

Millman is at work on a thesis concerned with meteors. He attributed the greenish light of the meteor to a large magnesium content which in a vaporized state brought about by the intense heat of friction combines with atoms of the rarified air to form an incandescent gas cap rushing before the meteor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Receives Many Replies To Appeal For Meteor Reports--Millman Reveals Significance of Astral Nomads | 3/4/1932 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Wilford H. ("Cap-tain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Whiz Bang, Hooey, True Confessions, and the better mannered Amateur Golfer and Sportsmen's Magazine; from Annette Fawcett. Charge: infidelity "on occasions too numerous to separately cite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 15, 1932 | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

Spaniards have rhapsodized over Gypsy Vicente Escudero ever since, at the age of 9, he danced in the streets with his Gypsy relatives, went through the crowds passing his worn cap for reales. Escudero hated asking for money. He felt that it degraded his art. But because he was a bold child with an attractively insolent manner he came back always with his cap well filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gypsy Dancer | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

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