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Word: carli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havre de Grace, hometown of Senator Tydings, was kicked out of office in apparent reprisal for his support of Senator Tydings. Last week a thoroughgoing purge of other Tydings friends on the Federal payrolls in Maryland was in full sway. Past Postmaster Coy drove his car out to the Susquehanna River bank, put a bullet through his brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Purge's Progress | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Four Daughters is a family vehicle as slick and streamlined as a sedan just off the assembly line, as capacious as a 1925 touring car, as comfortably upholstered as a buggy. It concerns itself with the lives of four musical smalltown sisters, the Lemps, three of whom are Lola, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane. Gale Page plays the fourth. What the Lemp girls want and what they get are two different things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...horse. After he began broadcasting for R. B. last June, his sponsor promised him a 1938 Buick coach if in two weeks he could bring 500 new accounts into the store. He appealed directly to his listeners. Within nine days 500 racing fans opened accounts, won Willie his car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Willie Winn | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...That after a blowout, as after a skid, it is dangerous to put on the brakes until the car has slowed down and come under control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Safety Anomalies | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...biggest anomaly on the curriculum was a demonstration to disprove the popular notion that driving would be made safer if governors were put on cars to limit their top speed. The students saw three demonstration cars almost pile up when a car with a governor, overtaking another, found itself with inadequate emergency power to pass quickly as another car came in the opposite direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Safety Anomalies | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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