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Word: comely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep out terrorists is being strung along the entire Palestine frontier at a cost of $450,000. This includes a nine-foot barbed wire fence between Palestine and French-mandated Lebanon and Syria, which border Palestine on the north and northeast. A lot of Palestine's tougher Arabs come from those two mandates. The fence will be completed in August, announced Sir John. Almost as he spoke, a band of Arab terrorists swooped down on a section of the fence, dubbed Tegart's Wall, ripped it up and carted it across the frontier into Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Tegart's Wall | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...Stevens at number seven seat has come up from last year's Freshman eight and Middlesex combinations. One of the smoothest blades in the boat, the 20-year-old Sophomore is an efficient pace setter for the starboard side with a keen sense of timing and a lot of power behind his strokes. Doug Erickson, a Senior, at number six, has had long years of rowing experience and is a conscientious, dependable man behind Chace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

After the dance merriment in Lowell House on Monday evening will come the Class day activities on Wednesday, beginning at 11:30 o'clock in the Kirkland House triangle, Here will be given the Class Orations, Poem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jimmy Dorsey to Play at Senior Spread Dance on Monday Night | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

...trust action against Alcoa. It resulted in a consent decree by which the company agreed to cancel its monopolistic contracts and to stop such practices in future. Since then Alcoa has been investigated several times by the Federal Trade Commission, twice by the Department of Justice. Alcoa has usually come out with a clean bill of health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Alcoa Forest | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...week's end television-minded New Yorkers were more than ever convinced that in the U. S., television is not yet ready to come out of the egg. Most responsible radio men feared that premature cracking might spoil the bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Early Birds | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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