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Word: downe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Nazi Admiral Graf Spee limped into Montevideo harbor last week to bury its dead, patch up, await orders, NBC-RCA's representative there, Bill Clark, signed up his friend Jimmy Bowen to keep watch on her. Jimmy, who had once broadcast a Montevideo opera opening for NBC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

What Jimmy Bowen watched through his glasses and told about, flash by flash, for the next 13 minutes filled everyone's front pages next day-"The ship is moving now, rolling from side to side. There goes another explosion! The after turret has gone up. . . . She is going down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

From Maine down to the Isthmus.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: To Santa | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In Pontotoc, Miss., two-and-a-half-year-old Keith McKnight fell into an empty 54-foot well. When his mother shouted: "Are you down there, Keith?", Keith replied: "Yes, and I'm dirty, too."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Copiously illustrated with archaic, mostly unheard-of local faces, published by a home press, dealing minutely with matters which once excited a town or county, at most, a State, these 500 pages might easily have been of an interest equally local. But they are, for those very reasons and some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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