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Word: carli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Blanton "crossed the wire" to shoot ducks, were never seen again. One night last week Game Wardens Dawson R. Murchison, Jack McCarley and Jim Robinson were patrolling the mesquite for night poachers-Mexicans or "plain whites" who sneak in after dark and shoot deer which they blind with car headlights or with jacklights fastened on their caps. Seeing two lights weaving through the brush, the wardens crouched until the poachers were a few paces away, then challenged them. The lights went out, a shotgun blared. Warden Murchison fell, torn with buckshot. He died before reaching the hospital, 14 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Christmas Killings | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Principal Attig quietly finished his school day, walked home, drove off in his car to a railroad crossing. When the train came by he jumped in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: I Must Stay | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...with pleasant memories at least with grim thankfulness. Steel production, at 52% of capacity, was double that of a year ago. The stockmarket, though dawdling, was doing so on a plateau 25% above 1937's year-end levels. Virtually every index of production or distribution-building, power, car loadings -had enjoyed an upward surge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Price Inequilibrium | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...Corrigan has netted some $75,000 for acting and for writing an autobiography. Most parsimonious celebrity in Hollywood, he lives in a cheap hotel room, rides to work on a bus, lunches on a nickel ice-cream bar, spends his weekends relining the brakes on his ten-year-old car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Newshawks, who had not had such a story in a coon's age, went to Brooklyn to call on a character named George Vernard, who had represented one of Coster's dummy agents and was also wanted by the police. They found a car being packed with luggage outside his door. Police arrived and arrested Mr. Vernard, who admitted that his real name was Arthur Musica. It then came out that George Dietrich was really George Musica and George's brother Robert, who also worked for McKesson & Robbins, was a fourth Musica brother, Robert, never before mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: My God, Daddy! | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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