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Word: carli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to Washington next day, via the Shenandoah Endless Caverns, one of those things occurred which turn Secret Servicemen grey. A car shot out of an intersection on the Lee Highway, directly across the path of the President's car. Only swift action by White House Chauffeur Monty Schneider averted a nasty collision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hush Week | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

From Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels came a symposium of German movies from 1910 to 1939. Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley presented a Volkswagen, the cheap German-manufactured car not yet available to the public. For the Reichsbank Dr. Walther Funk gave a version of Titian's Venus at the Mirror which official Germany now accepts (although many art critics do not) as one of two authentic originals of this painting...

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

...evening of October 16, the treaty was signed while church bells rang and a crowd clamored outside the town hall. It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon. Mussolini took a special train from Rome to Milan, drove a racing car from Milan to Stresa, a speedboat from Stresa to Locarno. Briand, always in bed by nine if possible, was asleep two hours after the signing. But he was stirred: "It is ended," he said later, "that long war between us. Ended those long veils of mourning for the pains that will never be assuaged. Away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: 1,063 Weeks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...maid somewhat, but she reflects that "it is better to be killed by a man than to live without one." The police, on a house-to-house search for the robber of the liquor store, frighten the innocent tramp, and he flees in the old maid's car, taking her maid and most of her silverware with him. Moral: "A woman can do what the Devil himself can't do: make a thief of an honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Radio Opera | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

When they reached the first of the three roller-coaster Newton hills, Tarzan decided to climb the hill as fast as he could. Opening his mouth wide for a minute he let the raindrops trickle in. Then, refreshed, he streaked up the hill like a supercharged racing car. From then on, it was a lonely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brave Victory | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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