Word: got
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...odds-on bet that Alice in Wonderland could not keep out of the war very long once Great Britain got in. Last week news of an extraordinary Triple Alliance-Lewis Carroll, Adolf Hitler and the British Broadcasting Corp. reached the U. S. Alice had become a wild satire called Adolf in Blunderland, a skit that ably combined entertainment value with rib-tickling, moral-upping, home propaganda value...
...Stalin: "You remember, little Adolf had followed the White von Ribbit into a hole. . . . He cried and cried, till there was a big pool of water, and he got so tiny that he fell in with a splash...
...even created a few atoms of gold. He now has a 225-ton cyclotron and is planning an even bigger machine, that will weigh 2,000 tons (TIME, Nov. 6). Dozens of cyclotrons are now in use all over the world, and many are in charge of physicists who got their first cyclotron training under Lawrence at Berkeley...
...established in 1864, V. M. I. became the finest military school in the U. S. outside of West Point. Its cadets were still chiefly Southerners, although non-Virginians were admitted at a higher tuition. As freshman hazing victims, they got the habit of calling each other Brother Rat.* Last week the Brother Rats overran Lexington, Va., saw two football games, had a whopping good time at the centennial...
...Santos Gollan, professor of journalism at the University of La Plata, had given prizes to the New York Times and the Minneapolis Journal, it would have been the exact reverse of a ceremony that took place in Manhattan. Instead, La Prensa of Buenos Aires, El Comercio of Lima, Peru, got the awards. And Professor Gollan (who is also Sunday editor of La Prensa) received them with Dr. Luis Miro Quesada, president of the board of El Comercio...