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Word: childlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus a married but childless Englishman with the modest income of $5,000 pays more than a tenth of all he earns to the State ($558.50), or almost 100 times more than a U. S. citizen in the same circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Time May Have Come. . . | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...news of my father's birth was received by Napoleon at Pultusk, Poland, when he was preparing the campaign that culminated in the victory of Friedland," said Mme. Leon last week. "Napoleon was already thinking of divorcing the childless Empress Josephine, so you can imagine what consequences the news of my father's birth might have had. But what could Napoleon do? Nothing! Marriage with my grandmother was out of the question. . . . He could only give the child the last syllables of his own name, calling him Count Leon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: New Lexicon | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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