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Word: cisterns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circles round a cistern's wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Against One | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Help to clean out rain water cistern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Master's Instructions Women For Hired Servant of 1814 Acquired by Widener Library From Heirs of John Pratt | 2/7/1935 | See Source »

Bring in water from pump in yard--Bring in water from cistern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Master's Instructions Women For Hired Servant of 1814 Acquired by Widener Library From Heirs of John Pratt | 2/7/1935 | See Source »

...villa of a Roman governor. In the streets, laid bare by gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes, the chariots of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedon passed. In the cellar of a synagogue is a curious cistern at the bottom of which the diggers found seven gold pieces?cast there, in Dr. Petovich's opinion, by a scared Jew fleeing from the earthquake that destroyed the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...week was a sorry affair. The Salome was big Goeta Ljungberg who created some illusion so long as she stayed in her blood-red wrapper. When she started nervously shedding veils, feebly wriggling her abdomen, the audience was as uncomfortable as she. But she got her reward. Into the cistern went the executioner. For a minute only the double-basses were heard, shuddering as if they could see the head fall, the blood gush. Then the executioner's black arm ap peared holding the platter and what seemed to be a wad of cheesecloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wanton's Return | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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