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Word: flew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the biggest helping. At the head of the parade of 80,000 troops rode the Italian Chief of Staff, General Gastone Gambara. Behind his strutting chestnut pony came the Italian Littorio Division and the Italian members of the Black, Blue and Green Arrow Legions. Overhead, 30 Italian planes flew in a formation of the Fascist emblem. When the Italian forces had passed on, the Rebel divisions were allowed to pick up the leavings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: WAR IN SPAIN | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Loyalist Foreign Minister Julio Alvárez del Vayo flew from Madrid to France to persuade Senior Azaña to return to Loyalist Spain and thus rob Britain and France of an excuse to withdraw recognition. Long and heated conferences took place in the big, flat-faced brown stucco Spanish Embassy on the Avenue George V in Paris. But Don Manuel, who has been wanting to surrender since the Rebels took Teruel a year ago, flatly refused to leave the safety of Paris. Peace at any price was his line. General Vicente Rojo, Loyalist Chief of Staff who crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Favors | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...just flew back from Hollywood; flying is just like dancing; the plane stopped three times and each time it stopped. I would wake up to listen to it go whoooosh when it took off. Then it got very bumpy, and I almost got thrown out of bed," she concluded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faith Bacon, Fan and Orchid Dancer, Would Like To Perform "Apres-Midi d'un Faune" at Harvard | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...formidable proportions appeared last night at the Lowell House Imperial Russian Ball. After several well-executed Immelman turns, all of which terrorized the fair dancers, the monster flew to the calling and clung there despondently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bat Visits Bellboys | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

...soon made it clear that her border had been opened to a population larger than Lille's (201,000) only in the name of humanity, that the Loyalist Government would be treated as a friendly one but would not be permitted to function inside French territory. The rumors flew thick & fast that France and Britain were about to do something to prevent further bloodshed in the war. From London came a report that the British had been asked by the Loyalists to act as intermediaries. From Perpignan came a dispatch saying that President Azaña opposed further resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Police Job | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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