Search Details

Word: ests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Some people say they know where to find 25,000 in silver buried on Long Island, say it would take only two weeks, cost only $500. In Tobermory Bay, off the :est coast of Scotland, dredging still goes on for the lost treasure of the Armada galleon Florencia. On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a treasure was actually discovered in a 153-ft. shaft which, promptly flooded, defied all attempts to drain it. Last fortnight Inventor Simon Lake was in the newspapers with an elaborate plan and a ong steel tube to salvage the millions hat went down in the purser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pieces of Eight | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Throughout France all local budgets close at the end of the calendar year n'est pas, Messieurs?" persuasively inquired M. Pietri last week. "I propose to put the national budget on the same logical footing!" Last year's French budget closed last April 1 with a deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chamber Meets | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...est formidable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jos | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...background of information and ideas which may intellectualize its efforts towards sanity. Its liberalism consists in the evaluation of first principles behind collegiate structure whether it be athletic, academic, or social. As for criticism of affairs outside of college to borrow a motto from a more conservative colleague: Dulce est periculum. If there is any sustaining editorial faith it must be a faith in the natural death of fools. If the liberalism is not foolish, sensitiveness on the part of the attacked will inevitably betray that the critical shaft has struck home. Attack for the sake of attack is destructive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBERAL CREDO | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...bomb into the parlor of the Portuguese Embassy. Ambassador Joao Carlos de Mello Barreto and his wife retreated hastily to the next room, waited with fingers in their ears till the bomb exploded, wrecking the furniture. Spain's President Niceto Alcala Zamora hurried round to express his deep est regrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Liquidated in Blood | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Previous | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | Next