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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geepers, look at that grind! He's been glued to that seat ever since I started. His eyes are riveted on the book. It is in one of those gadgets that makes it stand up and has clips to hold the pages. He's got glasses and green eye shades. Why doesn't he wear horse blinder? He takes notes at a page a minute with one hand and turns the pages with the other. But every time he turns a page it gets stuck in the clip and he has knocked the thing over three times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...President pressed a button, flashing a green light that opened San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 750 Rich Men | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

Approval of these plans was never in any doubt, but the discussion of them gave scope for oratory. President William Green of the A. F. of L. elaborately denounced C. I. O. for splitting Labor's ranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Michael & Lutijer | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...Green, once a Baptist lay preacher, here had his theology mixed. The Archangel who rebelled was Lucifer. Michael was the good Archangel who led the fight against Lucifer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Michael & Lutijer | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...This scripture, like Mr. Green's, is not to be found in the Bible. The dramatist Sophocles wrote: "Those whom Zeus would destroy he first makes mad," repeating an ancient Greek adage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Michael & Lutijer | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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