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Word: douglases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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One day, said Miss Duncan, she and a man named Douglas Miller were lunching together (Miss Duncan was traveling with her aunt) aboard the Norwegian freighter Ronda, standing up through the North Sea en route from Antwerp to Hoboken. Suddenly the ship "shuddered awfully." Glass tinkled, Miss Duncan remembered, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Down We Go | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Remarkably sensitive to aerial noises, the electroencephalograph, while attached to a patient's head, may sometimes pick up short-wave radio programs. Classic is the accident which happened to famed British Neurologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, who once hitched an amplifier to a brain recorder, for a wholesale broadcast of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Compared to last year when a total of $5,041 was collected, the cash sum is above average. Douglas Mercer '40, Council Treasurer, said that a drive would be made to collect pledges by a November 30 deadline, with pledges payable to the Harvard Student Council in Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL HAS LARGEST FUND PLEDGE | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

> Eire's leaders are: President, Douglas Hyde; Premier, Eamon de Valera; Defense Minister, Frank Aiken. Northern Ireland's: Governor, The Duke of Abercorn; Premier, Viscount Craigavon of Stormont.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

*Martin and Douglas are working on 315 bombers for France, Lockheed has turned out about 6.5% of its 250-ship bomber order for Britain, and only North American had nearly completed its foreign orders (basic trainers and combat ships for France and England).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1,000 Planes a Month? | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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