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Word: frazier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thirteen years later he brought suit against the Government for infringement of six bomb patents. In 1932, while his suit was dragging on, he appeared in Washington and began to scare people. He confided in President Hoover and members of Congress that he had a machine which Senator Lynn Frazier later described as "powerful enough to destroy all property and life in a section a quarter of a mile wide and a mile long." So impressed was Senator Frazier that he opposed the Hale Bill to enlarge the Navy, on the ground that Mr. Barlow's invention would make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Barlow's Bomb | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...change of pace, a picture agency released a photograph of blank-faced Brenda Frazier showing some expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...Telegraph last week. But the rumor he was talking about proved well founded. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, famed Pitt football coach, who was dumped into the open market a year ago after a row with Pitt educators, was thereafter rumored engaged almost as often as Brenda Frazier, had actually signed a contract: to coach the Brooklyn Dodgers, National League professional-football club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rumor No. 687 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Frederic Watriss, mother and guardian of 1939 Glamor Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, who will be 19 in June, applied to Surrogate's Court for her daughter's 1940 living expenses: $52,000. The application read: "[Brenda] ... is a grown woman moving in the society in which, because of her parents' and grandparents' background, she has taken a definite place." To another young heiress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Hull was 32 when a vacancy occurred in the Circuit Court. Governor James B. Frazier, remembering his services during the election crisis, appointed him judge-a title he still values more than any other. "They changed his name from Hull to Hell," complained the moonshiners. Once he fined his own pappy $5 for sitting in court with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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