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Word: crowdedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monday at Reno is known as "graduation day" because on that day divorces are handed. Some women pay an extra $2 to have their decrees certified and tied up with an official ribbon. Only mythical is the tradition that a divorced woman on leaving the Washoe County courthouse gratefully kisses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: New Freedom | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

In marked contrast to its unostentatious departure from the Isle of Sylt was the flying boat's spectacular arrival (from Halifax, N. S.) at New York. In mid-afternoon the great tandem-motored Dornier-Wal flew out of the northeast and over Manhattan's crowded Battery, twice circled the Statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Arrived: D-1422 | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

Once each year prime lawyers of the land are drawn together by the meeting of the American Bar Association, their profession's most august and potent national organization. Last week the A. B. A. held its 53rd annual convention in Chicago. Of its 29,386 members,* 2,415 crowded into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Chicago Convention | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Capt. von Gronau and his students reached Reykjavik, Iceland via the Faroe Islands in routine order, ostentatiously prepared to "fly back to Germany." But the captain refused to accept letters addressed to his homeland. An hour after their departure, Capt. von Gronau radioed to an astounded family, school and Transportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Carnival | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Some 700 eminent bacteriologists crowded into the smallish assembly hall of the Paris Pasteur Institute last week to attend the first International.Microbio-logical Congress. Elderly scientists who had not seen each other since before the War, pushed beaming through the throng for handclasps and greetings. Great names from text books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tuberculosis Debate | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

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