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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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It was my good fortune to be a member of Mr. Hutchins' sophomore English during the spring of 1936. I don't believe any English teacher ever lived who could read the Lady of the Lake as he did. Tall, dour in appearance, Mr. Hutchins loves a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

BANG! BANG! BANG! (revolver shots), "Racket! Racket! Racket! . . . You have been taken for a ride and don't know it. . . . Forced to pay hard-earned pennies for something that can be bought for half. . . . I want to help you stop being a victim of this racket. . . . If anyone tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Insurance Aired | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

"If you don't give us orders we'll vote for him again!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bawl Street | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Married. Burnice Smith, 25, granddaughter of the super-social George Washington Kavanaughs; and Bandmaster Eddie LeBaron (real name: Eduardo Alba-lini de Gastine), 32; after eloping to Yonkers, N. Y. Snobbed Grandfather Kavanaugh: "We don't like it a bit. It doesn't fit in with our social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

In Boston, James Moran hired twelve men, varying from cross-eyed to farsighted, issued them muskets with blank cartridges, marched them out to Bunker Hill, reconstructed the Revolutionary battle, to prove that Captain William Prescott could not have shouted: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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