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Word: creeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some strikers were milling aimlessly about a West Virginia mining camp. They lacked a leader. Down beside the creek, the road was guarded by State machine-gunners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Matriarch | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

Retorted the little old woman: "Ye've no orders t'keep the creek clear." And up to her waist in water she waded into camp to rally the strikers, to lead them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Matriarch | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...robbing and setting fire to the home of Charles Marsh. Jonas Grant said that he had committed arson in order to awaken the victims of his robbery, so they would be sure to send him to jail. He explained that he had been unable to make the Redwood Creek baseball team, that an ex-convict had told him the San Quentin prison team was one of the best in the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Roomer | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Later Saint Gandhi sat in a dry creek bed while a chorus of sari-clad Indian women sang a hymn, translated as follows by Indian correspondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: National Week | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...composed of three members appointed by the President to operate the plant, sell power to States and municipalities, experiment with fertilizer nitrates by using any private process filed with the U. S. Patent Office. A $32,000,000 dam was to be constructed above Muscle Shoals at Cove Creek to stabilize the Tennessee's flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kick in the Pants | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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