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Word: fiats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the race will be on a circuit of approximately half a mile, the course has been arranged with a view to constructing it as realistically as possible. Two hairpin turns, six right-angle turns, numerous bends and one sharp hill help to relieve the monotony of the regular fiat track...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racing Association To Stage 50 Mile Road Race For Gentlemen Drivers Over Half Mile Course | 9/27/1934 | See Source »

...from opening the Chamber of Deputies to attending a garden party, grizzled, militant King Vittorio Emmanuele III nearly always wears the uniform of a general. For a wonder last week His Majesty put on civilian clothes, stepped with Her Majesty and their youngest daughter Princess Maria into a sleek Fiat limousine. It slid down the crushed oyster shell drive of the royal villa at San Rossore. took the long white road north, unescorted and unannounced. Citizens of the bustling little seaside town of Viareggio had no idea that their King and Queen were among them as the royal car slipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY-AUSTRIA: Match Making | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...seemed to be in transferring to Soviet courts the Ogpu's right to pronounce sentence of Death. Hereafter all grave cases are to come up before Bolshevik courts-martial, noted for their readiness to inflict the supreme penalty. In his new post as Commissar, Genrikh Yagoda can by fiat sentence any Russian to exile in Siberia or elsewhere, or to imprisonment for up to five years. Since it is unusual for a prisoner to live as long as five years in certain notorious Soviet prisons, notably that of Solovetskii in the White Sea, most Moscovites realize that Comrade Yagoda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: New Spots, Old Skin | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...onto her, kept from a toilet all the 28 hours, flung into a filthy bath tub where the outlet was plugged up from vomit broken teeth and the hair of other victims, and on top of it all, caught pleurisy, from which she nearly died in Brussels, and was fiat on her back for two months, and is still badly injured from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major Frank Pease, a Violent Railer Against Hanfstaengl Can't Be Located | 6/20/1934 | See Source »

...winning crew, stroked by Francis, covered the course in 7 minutes fiat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chmapionship of University Won by 2nd Freshman Crew | 5/18/1934 | See Source »

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