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Word: executioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harlow has relied upon this system because of his material. He has a good many ball toters of more than average ability, but none who can go places without lots of road-paving. His problem was one of producing a team of average talent but perfectly drilled being able to...

Author: By Donald B. Straus, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

Careful organization and quick execution may turn the trick today as the Big Green, if they play their usual game, seek to bundle up the opposition with a bonecrushing body attack.

Author: By Morris Earle, | Title: BOOTERS MEET BIG GREEN HERE TODAY | 10/22/1937 | See Source »

The Japanese advance on land toward Shantung had approached so near its capital, Tsinan, last week that prosperous Chinese families were fleeing with their household goods by rail to the port of Tsingtao. Farther inland General Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province, was reported to have ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Double-Ten | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Rightist Spain's 35 Provinces and their capital cities are governed by "Civil Governors," who are actually military governors appointed by General Franco. Minor local officials, if they are not known Reds, generally keep their jobs in captured territory if they behave themselves. As in Leftist Spain, Rightist Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: El Caudillo | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

When Russia first told an incredulous world of its plan to establish a transpolar airline to the U. S., it announced that its No. 1 flyer, Sigismund Levanevsky, would make the first trip (TIME, June 14 et seq.). Instead, this bootblack's son who is often called "the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: No Bearings | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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