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Word: earls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rainy night last week, the Lake Shore Limited highballed west from Albany, N. Y., Chicago-bound. By old Engineer Jesse Earl's watch he was 15 minutes behind schedule. Near Little Falls, N. Y. the Limited shot into a sharp curve. As the engine leaned round the bend, it teetered, jumped its track, ripped across two other tracks, whammed into a stone embankment and exploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Wreck of the Lake Shore | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Forbes, 60, a softspoken, blue-eyed, pint-sized gunnery specialist who reached the top without social pull, who likes to prune his own apple trees, whose second wife is a Swede. He saw the carnage at the Dardanelles as executive officer of the Queen Elizabeth, was the late Admiral Earl Jellicoe's fleet gunnery officer at Jutland in the Iron Duke, for which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Royal Navy's Test | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins refused Communist Earl Browder (out on bail pending appeal of his conviction for passport fraud) permission to speak on the University of Chicago campus. Said Hutchins to protesting students: "If the university banned a redheaded man it would be an infringement of civil liberties. If it banned a murderer it would not. This case lies somewhere in between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Present head of Charity is rotund, cheery Dr. Roy William Wright, first cousin of defeated Governor Earl Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Orleans Hospital | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...lady known as Elizabeth is now an old lady of 74. Born Mary Annette Beauchamp (pronounced Beecham), a cousin of the late Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Beauchamp), she was married first to a German nobleman, Count von Arnim, and in 1916 to the second Earl Russell, elder brother of Philosopher Bertrand Russell. After their separation a few years later, she lived and worked in Switzerland, England and France. Last summer she left her villa in the south of France, turned up at the Dublin Inn, Dublin, N. H. In the autumn, driving her own small car, she proceeded to the Gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elizabeth's Autumn Garden | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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