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Word: chaires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accompany further war, the feudists this week proceeded toward a special convention and an attempt by the ousted rebels to oust Homer Martin. Meanwhile, John L. Lewis grimly followed their farrago, continued to consider whether he could & should step in, put some one else in Homer Martin's chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Rocking Chairs | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...late Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford, was a firm believer in "psychic phenomena," endowed a chair of psychic research at California's Stanford University. First occupant was a distinguished psychologist, the late John Edgar Coover. Second and present occupant is a black-haired, tenacious young man named John Kennedy. Both Coover and Kennedy have used the research funds provided by Thomas Welton Stanford to try to expose the phenomena in which the donor believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unconscious Whispering | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...entertainment by such world favorites as Maurice Chevalier and Yvonne Printemps, staged for the King and Queen and about 120 guests. The party could be seen through the brightly lighted windows of the Palace. Popular cheers and impatience increased, and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut squirmed nervously on his chair, several times half rose as if to order the curtains drawn, to shut out vague Danger. After the last star turn, the Queen, then the King were seen expressing themselves earnestly to the President and Mme Lebrun, finally won their point and appeared on the low balcony amid pandemonium which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Warning to Dictators | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Colonel Beck flew from Warsaw to talk this over last week with the Foreign Minister of Latvia, brilliant young Vilhelms Munters, who emerged as a leading small-power statesman when he recently chair-manned the League Advisory Committee on the Far East. En route to Latvia, Colonel Beck created a great Baltic stir by becoming the first Polish Cabinet Minister ever to set foot on Lithuania's soil. On July 1 normal railway service was restored between Poland and Lithuania after a lapse of 18 years during which these two nations, created after the World War, had remained quarreling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Baltic Belgians? | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Etioles; sketched the life history of Maurice de Saxe (best character in the book), royal bastard and master of strategy, who had planned a battle at Fontenoy 13 years before, and on the day that it was fought, was carried, suffering from dropsy, to the battlefield in a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Empty Victory | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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