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Word: gangplanks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incognito, and with scarcely more pomp than surrounds the movements of J. P. Morgan for whom a private gangplank, etc. is always provided, Siam's somewhat frail King will spend some three months in the U. S. taking what would be called in Europe "the cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Mighty Monarch | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...converted Navy submarine with which Explorer Sir George Hubert Wil- kins expects to prowl like a polliwog under the Arctic ice next summer, cruised last week from its shipyard at Camden, N. J. to New York Harbor. Sir Hubert, with a fresh medal in his kit,* walked the gangplank to a Brooklyn dock and stood by while the curious eyed his beard and submarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Polliwog | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Poor Old Irigoyen. Almost every other day last week, 73-year-old ex-President Irigoyen became alternately a "prisoner" and a "guest" of the Uriburu regime. Official announcements on this point finally became so jumbled that only this could be said: a white-haired old man slowly mounted the gangplank of the cruiser Belgrano, walking as in a dream between his daughter and his doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Shots & Loans | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Most likely person to save the Shepherd dog's vogue is a Van Dyked, pince-nezzed little man who stepped gingerly down a gangplank into the U. S. last fortnight and headed for Madison, N. J., where he assumed his judicial ermine (not his usual German sporting togs and feathered Alpine hat but a grey business suit) at the stylish Morris and Essex Kennel Club show. He, Capt. Max von Stephanitz, one-time cavalry officer in the German army, was the man responsible for the social climb of the Shepherd dog from its lowly position as a German field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Drawing Room Dogs | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...black boys on deck that they jumped over the rail, were all drowned or killed by sharks. LoBagola, locked in a cabin, was carried to Scotland, a savage little animal who' would not wear clothes, bit people who tried to dress him. At Glasgow he ran down the gangplank, still stark naked, drew a crowd, was rescued and taken home by a kindly Scotsman. In this man's family LoBagola stayed four years, gradually learned how not to behave; memorized a' few words of English. Says he: "Before I knew fifty words in the English language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Without A Country | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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