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Word: float (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong." As the world is rushing headlong into the dismal future, he is thrusting himself backwards upon a Victorian past. Today at 12 he will journey to the Big Fogg Lecture Room, there to hear Professor Lowes upon the 19th Century poets. For a brief hour life will float gracefully along nodding to the gods upon Olympus and sweeping its skirts above the puddles of industry and high finance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/7/1931 | See Source »

...National Flood Relief Commission under able Minister of Finance T. V. Soong, worked busily. The Nationalist Government, already harassed by rebellion in the south, disaffection in the far west and money troubles of its own, arranged to float a $15,000,000 bond issue, provided $600,000 in ready cash. From the U. S. Red Cross came $100,000. The League of Nations Public Health Service cabled an offer of epidemiologists and supplies from stations in India, Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies and Japan. Emperor Hirohito of Japan sent $27,000. The Asiatic fleet of the U. S. Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: After Deluge, Famine | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Under a searing sun which killed one man, dropped a score of others, a three-hour historical parade filed through the streets of Salt Lake City. Queen of the celebration was Margaret Young, 20, a great-great-granddaughter of old Brigham through the line of eldest sons.* On her float which won first prize in the parade, Miss Young, garbed all in white, represented "Miss Pioneer." Present also were ten old codgers, querulous in the heat, who had crossed the plains during the first decade (1847-57) of the Mormon migration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Frontier Days | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

Coach Cromwell is baldheaded, expansive, slightly fussy. His charges are proud and pleased when he kisses them for winning a race, as last week he kissed Vic Williams. In such gestures as this? and the circumstance that young Runner Wykoff, as a reward for winning races, will ride a float in Los Angeles next week as ruler of a pre-Olympic pageant?are implied the true reason for Californian athletic supremacy?Enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: West Meets East | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...rowboat renting float went next, slipped under the bridge successfully, then swung inshore again, ripped loose two big bathing barges and another rowboat float. Out in midstream again went the floating mass of derelicts, slowly spinning round and round. With a crash it broke against the Ernest Walz Bridge, but the Ernest Walz stood firm. Spectators cheered hilariously as the bathhouses went down with towels flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Swollen Neckar | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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