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Word: disbanded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Someone led a long Yale cheer for Browder that drowned out his speech. Someone else dumped a pail of water from the roof. The crowd chanted the famed Undertaker's Song. Soon paper bags and firecrackers began to pop. An old lady rushed up to a policeman shrieking: "Disband this group of ruffians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Browder at Yale | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...change certain very obnoxious traits, always associated with Radcliffe girls, the most obnoxious being the "Radcliffe Walk." "If we can eliminate that factor from the campus and also make most of the girls realize the value of always looking presentable, then I feel that we will be able to disband with a clear conscience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Girls Form Novel Club And Date Bureau | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...August 21). Mr. Johnson had announced that this board after reviewing his 1939 plan for industrial mobilization would continue to serve, would become in wartime an all-powerful War Resources Administration. Last week the President announced that W. R. B. will make one report to him and then promptly disband. Chortled Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Scandalous Spats | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D Major (London Philharmonic, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 4 sides). Last fortnight war forced the 126-year-old London Philharmonic, England's No. 2 orchestra* and one of the world's finest nine or ten, to disband. This well-tooled "first" of Handel's serene, 18th- Century score becomes its first posthumous release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: SYMPHONIC, ETC. | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...himself boarded the million-dollar Presidential special "Olive Train" to investigate matters at first hand in the city of San Luis Potosí. There he publicly accused the Bull of Potosí of playing ball with the foreign oil companies, and announced the Government was ordering him to disband his private army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cedillo Squeeze | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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