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Word: duels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismay of the French Press and public, to the vast relief of the Ministry of Justice, the nine-month duel of wits between Besson and "Bouboule" ended last week. Onetime Deputy Hippolyte Marcellin Philibert Besson, who took to doing card tricks in a Montmartre café, was arrested by plump Police Inspector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Triumph of Bouboule | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...second period Mechem got an early goal, and then fireworks were let loose as Ford and Carvell engaged each other in a little slashing duel with Carvell being chased...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SKATERS SWAMP B.U. 12-1 IN ARENA LAST NIGHT | 12/18/1935 | See Source »

...yards of the H-Y-P cross country meet. Captain Bob Playfair ghosted by Woodland of Yale to finish the course at Nassau in record-smashing, time, while his team-mates rolled out a 25-30 victory over Eli yesterday and a similar total for the separately scored Princeton duel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYFAIR WINS FOR CRIMSON HARRIERS AS RECORDS FALL | 11/12/1935 | See Source »

...Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily who sobbed convulsively with streaming eyes during the ceremony. Sympathetic witnesses were that unhappy couple, sad Belgian Princess Marie-Jose and her gay Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. Once dashing Umberto was the hope of antiFascists, was said to have challenged Il Duce to a duel, never gave the stiff-armed, flat-palmed Fascist salute, saluting Army style instead. In the present crisis. Italy's Crown Prince publicly salutes like a Fascist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Patience, With Progress | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...trampled down Spain, Holland, France and Germany." Asks Unofficial Observer: "Who will be next? America? Japan? Russia?" This colossus is deathly ill, "weary in every cell," its clay head aching with the problem of preventing war or disorder in Europe which would immobilize the fleet while "the great duel between the white and the yellow races is fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Side-Show | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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