Search Details

Word: carres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...contractor is building a dam for the U. S. Reclamation Bureau. Five A. F. of L. unions struck last month for a closed shop at the dam. Last week 200 deputized vigilantes (non-strikers, ranchers, businessmen) attacked the strikers, shot and wounded five, subsided only when Governor Ralph L. Carr sent National Guardsmen to quell "a state of insurrection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Down Under Man | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...headache was to find water for "Venus's Pre-natal Château" tank that was clear and nondistorting. Ordinary filtered city water finally filled the bill. Another headache was to find 17 girls able to do virtually a vaudeville act under water. Some, like puckish little Kelcey Carr (see cut}, were plucked out of Greenwich Village dives, some were recruited from strictly amateur ranks through friends of the management. All are comely and most of the 17 were able surface swimmers, learned their new trade from a coach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...PROBLEM OF THE GREEN CAPSULE-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). A man is poisoned in the presence of three witnesses, none of whom can tell what happened. But ingenious Dr. Fell catches the culprit. Intricate and astute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Charley Carr (Kirkland...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Lowell and Adams Each Place Three Men On All-House Nine | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...shortstop Joe Lyford of Lowell and Charley Carr of Kirkland are two of the classiest ball players in the League. Smooth-working Carr barely gets the nod over hard-hitting Lyford for the post, but the latter is ton good a ballplayer to be omitted from the lineup. Therefore, Lyford goes over to third to edge out a fast-improving teammate, Bellboy Robin Scully, by the slimmest of margins. Scully's stickwork was weak until the last few games of the year but then he came up with a bang...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Lowell and Adams Each Place Three Men On All-House Nine | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Next