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Word: deserted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radioed Leader Papanin to Professor Otto Yulievich Schmidt, hardy, hairy chairman of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration, who was on a third icebreaker not yet insight: ". . . Wewerenot anxious for a moment about our fate because we knew that our mighty fatherland which sent forth its sons would never desert them. The warm care and attention of the party and government of dear Comrade Stalin, of the whole Soviet people, uninterruptedly maintained in us the conviction to accomplish successfully all our work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Care & Attention | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Switching the spotlight to Winthrop discloses the Faithful Fourteen, wasting their fragrance on the desert air. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SINISTER TALE OF THE MARQUESSA AND THE FAITHFUL FOURTEEN | 2/25/1938 | See Source »

Sirs: Clark Alvord of Eldorado Canyon, Nev., oldtime prospector and desert rat, whose recent death was noted in your issue of Jan. 24 because of the fact that Miss Marion Davies had been made residuary legatee of his estate, was a man of original ideas. When I first met him, some 20 years ago, he tried to sell me a group of undeveloped mining claims he owned. They did not impress me favorably, but to humor him I asked the price. He scratched his head and pondered. "Well," he said finally, "I've held those claims for 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Weakening or withdrawal by the Fatherland from the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo "Axis," the Army being convinced that Italy will desert Germany in the next war as she did in 1915, and that in the Far East it is clearly to Germany's interest to build friendly relations and trade with China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Purge No. 2 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...sand-bitten old Clark Alvord prospected in the sere Nevada hills, trudged the desert studying Indian lore, managed the post office and a general store in the desert town of Nelson (pop. 17). By night he liked to write friendly compliments to his favorite film star, Marion Davies, whose pictures he frequently drove the 40 rough miles to Las Vegas to see. Fortnight ago Prospector Alvord died, and last week his will was read. To his kin went 45% of his estate, to Actress Davies the rest. The estate: $1,000 cash, money due him on a $9,000 mining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Testament | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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