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Word: gracing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both by inheritance and environment about half and half. It has been my observation also that northern men are more apt to look askance at the dusky beauties of the South. Also, according to Freud, a young man from the North would not have fallen, thus, from grace. I might add, irrelevantly, that I am a Northerner by birth and tradition. I am originally from Bismarck, N. Dak. My great-grandfather was a personal friend of Lincoln and outfitted a company with his own resources in the Northern army. Relatives and friends still reside in Bismarck. The second mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 8, 1930 | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...Gilbert Lariston Garnet Murray-Kynnyn-mond Elliott, the present (5th) Earl of Minto. Done in the 18th century by the masterful brush of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the ist Lady of Minto's value as last estimated was anywhere up to $150,000. When the theft was discovered His Grace posted a reward of $10,000 for the capture of the thief, the return of his ancestress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mayfair Lady Missing | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...Cornelius Jansen Bishop of Ypres in his Augustinus suggested five heretical propopositions based on St. Augustine's Doctrine of Grace. One important group of still exists in Holland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Finger Talkers | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

Members of the Optometrical Society of the City of New York peered inquisitively last week at Grace Robin, 22, near-sighted Brooklyn stenographer. Pleasantly but glassily Grace Robin peered back. She did not appear to be wearing eyeglasses. yet she was, right against her eyeballs- contact glasses, such as had never been seen by the New York Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Contact Glasses | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

Tire Trouble. John Henry Mears, theatrical producer; racing globetrotter, took off from Roosevelt Field, N. Y., in a Lockheed monoplane to beat the Graf Zeppelin's round-the-world time of 21 days. With pilot Henry J. Brown and a terrier mascot he reached Harbor Grace, N. F., tried to take off before dawn on a bumpy field, cracked up when a tire blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Aug. 11, 1930 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

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