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Word: dowse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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George VI rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests. John Pierpont Morgan was under doctor's orders not to shoot, but opened his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Glorious Twelfth | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

"The Discovery of a Phoenician City and of its Literature at Ras Shamra" will be the subject for Wednesday, March 18, when Robert H. Pfeiffer, Curator of the Semitic Museum, will lecture. Dows Dunham '14, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, will deliver the last lecture on Friday, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Semitic Museum Offers Four Lectures on Archaeology | 3/10/1936 | See Source »

The Treasury also operates the Ritz of relief projects for artists, known as the Treasury Relief Art Project. TRAP's director is Olin Dows, a bristle-haired young socialite painter from Duchess County, N. Y. He has been given $550,000 with which to provide jobs for no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Government Inspiration | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

"People in the West Side, west of Ninth Avenue, throw garbage from upstairs win-dows," began Mark O'Connell, blushing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oration | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

("Ike") Hoover, 41 years White House usher (whose "consideration of others is unfailing"). Other nominees: Novelist Benjamin Kittredge; Artist Olin Dows soft-drawling Lawyer Frank Lyon Polk, Wilsonian Undersecretary of State; Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham; Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Actor George Arliss.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 20, 1932 | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

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