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Word: caps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several of the fair culprits had invaded the Yard and were busily engaged in decorating the statue in front of University Hall with a wig, cap and gown, and strangely enough, a hoop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Girls Frustrated In Attack on John Harvard | 5/3/1939 | See Source »

...heils greeted him. On the new Via Triumphalis, the broad East-West "axis" which Herr Hitler himself ordered cut through the heart of a fast rebuilding capital, the former corporal acted for all the world like an emperor. He wore his usual simple brown Nazi uniform, but on the cap, below a spread eagle, were gilded oak leaves encasing a swastika-the mark of the supreme military commander he is. He sat on a gilded thronelike chair placed on a raised dais covered with red plush. He was protected by a grey canopy decorated with eagles and iron crosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Aggrandizer's Anniversary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Durham, N. C., Heiress Doris Duke Cromwell, together with Husband James, donned cap and gown, marched in the centennial procession at Duke University which received its name and some $80,000,000 from Father James Buchanan Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...merchants in various neighborhoods. Reads one Index: "Christ Himself sponsored this little leaflet for your protection." Upon non-Christian shops, anti-Semitic stickers appear: BY BUYING HERE YOU HELP THE COMMUNISM (see cut). (Turned upside down, the head on the sticker resembles a plug-ugly "Red" in a Russian cap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Emblems | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...happened just as Vag had always seen in the movies. He knew exactly what to do, for the scene had been rehearsed in his mind a thousand times before. Her baggage must be torn from her small hands and lifted to the rack above. Helplessly, Vag watched the red-cap go through the motions. Still, there was hope. The girl had turned her blue eyes to the pages of a book, and then Vag saw his chance. She was cramming desperately for an exam, and if it were only in his field, or even English 35, he would throw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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