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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equally to blame, and its local organizers, no less than their undergraduate sympathizers, should heed the words uttered yesterday by William Green: "The best interests of workers will never be served by tactics adopted from hoodlums and gangsters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE TACTICS OF HOODLUMS" | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

...villagers rushed through the streets shouting "0 firn do mundo!" (the end of the world). In war-minded France, the cry was "C'est la guerre!" In Austria and elsewhere in Europe, kneeling peasants gibbered prayers. In Holland, merry celebrants hailed the vast curtains of red, orange, purple, green, blue and white light shifting and shimmering in the northern sky as a happy omen for the delivery of Princess Juliana (see p. 77). In London, which had not seen the aurora borealis since the dire night of a Zeppelin raid during the War, someone, thinking that Windsor Castle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Aurora | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Manhattan hearings of rival claims of Massachusetts, Texas, Florida and New York for inheritance taxes on the $49,000,000 estate of the late capricious Colonel Edward Rowland Robinson Green (TIME, April 19, et seq.), the following evidence was introduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...That every Christmas Eve Colonel Green passed in Manhattan for 15 years, he meandered up Fifth Avenue from the old Waldorf-Astoria to Central Park, slipping a $5 gold piece to each policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...That he wrote a letter in 1924 to the Immanuel Church, Bellows Falls, Vt., asking for his left leg, which had been amputated when he was 21, and which his mother, Hetty Green, had buried in the family plot; and that he received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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