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Word: coasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maritime Commission, he presented to the Senate, with his peculiar, Biblical eloquence, the Admiral's conclusions. (Meantime his onetime colleague, cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo, now head of the American President Line, used his prerogative as an ex-Senator to lobby slickly on the Senate floor for Pacific Coast shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Brass Tacks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

LONDON--A squadron of German planes bombed British warships in the Firth of Forth at Edinburgh today, wounding 35 sailors and slightly damaging the cruiser Southampton before they were beaten off with at least four of the Nazi bombers shot down along the Scottish coast...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...second wireless informed Captain Chelton of the warning, instructed him to search every cranny for possible time-bombs, not to worry the passengers by telling them, and finally, since crazy though it was, the warning was too serious to dismiss altogether, he was to expect "a Coast Guard vessel and several Navy ships" which would accompany the Iroquois to an unspecified American port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Dead Shell | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Yesterday the head of the German Navy, Grand Admiral Raeder, officially informed the American Government, through the United States Naval Attache in Berlin that according to information on which he relied, an American ship, the Iroquois, is to be sunk when it nears our American east coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Dead Shell | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Angeles, Southern California-Rose Bowl champions last year and rated the West Coast's No. 1 team again this year despite the loss of ten of their star performers-white-washed Washington State with a varied assortment of brushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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