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Word: fines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catch the militia in the legs. As the Red charge broke and failed on the 59th day of the siege, its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Luis Barcelo, was carried off the field with a bullet in his leg, still crying with Spanish braggadocio: "Everything is going fine!" Explained one of his friends, Spanish Muralist Luis Quintanilla, Ernest Hemingway's good friend (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934), who has now become a militia major: "We cannot take a fortress like the Alcázar in five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Terrific Toledo | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...rose Milan marble, a pinkish metallic veined stone so rare that it may no longer be exported from Italy. Averaging $5,000 apiece in price, all were the work of suave, spectacled Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski. At the same time word came from Paris that the Ministry of Fine Arts had decided to invest French taxpayers' money in two Lovet-Lorski pieces: a bronze nude for the Beaux Arts and a big, ivory marble head for the Musee du Luxembourg's foreign section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lorochka | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Significantly they avoided any direct attacks upon the New Deal. Instead they dwelt upon the historic accomplishments of their industry, promised fine things to come, "provided the sound principles upon which our country has developed and grown great are continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The American Way | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...Motors shirt ($120,000,000) in 1920. The Durant car, with which he planned to recoup his fortunes in 1921, is no longer made. When Asbury Park, N. J. newshawks discovered unsinkable, 74-year-old Mr. Durant merrily washing dishes in a lunchroom last week they baked up a fine riches-to-rags story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Durant's Dishes | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

With Captain Gaffney a spectator for precautionary reasons, Charlie Kessler, at left guard, turned in about the best line performance of the afternoon. Al Kevorkian and Rus Allen also did some fine work at left tackle and right guard upon full professors their most beauti-respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRID SQUAD ENTERS LAST WEEK BEFORE LORD JEFF CONTEST | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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