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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The first half of the story takes them to the California line-a 1,500-mile journey of breakdowns, exhaustion, sickness, death (Grampa dies the second day, Granma as they cross the desert), persecution by cops, tourist-camp proprietors, of miseries to make the old pioneers turn in their graves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oakies | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Anticipating a parking campaign by Cambridge Police of five dollar fines for each violation, the Yard Cops have ticketed each car parked in violation of city ordinances.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APTED IMPOSES TWO DOLLAR FINE ON PARKING VIOLATORS | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

Last year the Hummerts began sending scripts to London to be Anglicized and broadcast from Normandy and Luxemburg to British listeners. Anglicizing largely involved changing cops to bobbies, dollars to pounds, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round to London Merry-Go-Round, Lorenzo Jones to Marmaduke Brown, and most writers felt that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hummerts' Mill | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

The CBS thriller Gang Busters this week rounds out a three-year career in the service of law & order and Palmolive Shave Cream. It will have 110 candles, however, on its figurative birthday cake. Reason: every Wednesday night Gang Busters accompanies its blood-&-thunder re-enactments of real-life man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Nemesis by Air | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

"O. K., Foster," he said, "I'm your man. I'm all shot. . . ." May dashed out, hailed the cops, grabbed a short-wave microphone and ran back in to interview his captive before police could haul him away.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Nemesis by Air | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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