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Word: es (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begin until lunchtime, because both swordsmen overslept. Arriving first, Bernstein found a policeman trying to forbid the encounter.* Said Bernstein, brushing him by: "You're not going to forbid anyone to do anything." As the challenged party, Bernstein had choice of weapons, chose épées; as winner of the toss, had choice of position, chose the sun at his back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Swords at Lunchtime | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...strike. Into the meeting to steal the show completely marched Emma Tenayuca. La Pasionaria's Communism was too much for Father Lopez, and he retired from active direction. Not more than 1,000 of 11,000 workers, struck. Soon pickets were parading with signs reading, "El Padre Lopez es un mat Católico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: La Pasionaria de Texas | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Patterson's "normal airway width" apparently does not coincide with the Department of Commerce airway width of 50 mi. Thus Hayden's Peak (12.473 ft.), near which United's "Mainliner" crashed in October, approximately 24 mi!es south of the centre of United's transcontinental lane, is evidently not considered on United':; regular right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Low Level | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...knowed he hadn't never left the hotel since we'd came in from the grounds and changed our clo'es. So Carey says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Living Legend | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...must have been impressed with the fact that no faculty sanction would or could have been given, not to mention my own approval, to any exhibition which could have proved injurious or fatal to the participants. . . . For your elucidation we used regulation combat épées (as approved by the Amateur Fencers League of America) tipped with the regulation points d'arrét (three small points 1/32 in. long) As an additional precaution, we covered these points with adhesive tape to further reduce their "biting power," and also instructed and trained each fencer not to strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1937 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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