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Word: drags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain on the sea and land and in the air, if she is attacked by Italy in the course of application of sanctions. . . . Why should I not frankly confess my fear and dread of an incident of the sort which history often produces, an incident which could drag France into a war which I have done everything to avert. The more rigorous the obligations imposed upon France by the League become, the more I have felt bound to endeavor to put through a peaceful settlement. ... It is understood that the Paris proposals [The Deal] are dead, but the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Millionaires in Rupture | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...determined attack, led by Ray Lavietes early in the second half, enabled the Crimson to tie the score. However, Toan scored on a free throw to start the Green machine again scoring. Encouraged by this play and a late spurt by Thomas, the Indians followed up their lead to drag the game from the fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH EDGES CRIMSON QUINTET 37-28 BEFORE 2000 | 12/19/1935 | See Source »

...Mussolini is reaching out with his mailed fist to drag us back into a more primitive age when conquest was respectable and did not offend the moral and legal code of international society as it does today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Technical Advisor to Saar Plebiscite Proclaims Superiority of Roosevelt's Policy of Neutrality | 12/3/1935 | See Source »

...Birmingham, when Mrs. Ernestine Meeks refused probation for a liquor law violation and began to serve a 60-day jail term, her husband, sometime subpoena server, crowed: "There has been a lot of talk about us having a drag. I want people to know we serve our time in jail like other respectable people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 2, 1935 | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Yale turned up with a new gadget yesterday at the Junior Varsity game in the form of a portable shower. Managers would drag the machine onto the field during time outs, pump furiously, and refresh weary players with gentle rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gentle Rain for Yale | 11/23/1935 | See Source »

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