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Word: deliverance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The biggest (250-ton) floating derrick ballasted by 300-ton of water lifted the tank from the flatcars to the river, where she floated half submerged. Carpenters lagged her with 14-in. timbers to protect her from bumps. A tug lashed on to a 400-ft. hawser, and at 6...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Big Tank | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Widener is by situation lord of the Yard and in theory the focal point of Harvard. It boasts many superlatives. It is the largest department of the University and one of the most expensive. Under its roof is gathered the most complete aggregation of pre-Mussolini Italian books, the best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME ARE TO BE READ | 10/14/1937 | See Source »

If I'd a-sot right smack on a tack I woodn't aben more surprized then I wuz ter larn how many TIME readers wuz former apple butter stirrers. Why, shucks, th' mailman thot Xmas was here already, jedgin from th' extra letters he'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

To 25-year-old Prizewinner Wallace Stegner, top place was well awarded for a finished performance. Remembering Laughter has a horse-&-buggy era, Iowa setting. Inhibited by his beautiful, strait-laced wife, spirited Farmer McLeod discovers in her equally beautiful but more lifelike younger sister a long-lacked audience and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novelette Finalists | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

At Williams, James Phinney Baxter, 3rd, formerly professor of History and master of Adams House here, will be inducted as President as he listens to President-emeritus Lowell deliver the most important address of the occasion.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Speaks at Cornell As Day Becomes President | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

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