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Word: heaver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knut Hamsun, 69, is a onetime shoemaker's apprentice, coal-heaver, schoolteacher, road-mender, farmhand, trolley conductor, fisherman. Twice he has visited the U. S. Now he lives with his family on an estate near Grimstad, Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Again, Knut | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...announce that its efficient police-spies had tracked down the bombers. One, stated to be Colonel Georgi Nikolaevich, a onetime officer in the White Russian Army of Baron Wrangel, was chased by O. G. P. U.-ers and shot through the heart as he fled. The other bomb heaver, unidentified, was taken alive in the suburbs of Moscow through the aid of loyal peasants who betrayed his hiding place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bombs & Executions | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Commander MacMillan reiterated his belief that heaver-than-air machines are impracticable for Polar flying. He gave the Navy men and planes their due but insisted that, until the dirigible is proven a contender, "the dog is still king of the Arctic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MacMillan Back | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...advocated (and the Board of Overseers has approved) the "logical action of placing the surplus funds of the Athletic Association in the hands of the treasurer of the University." It was this move which has been interpreted in some quarters as a Crub an athletics and a "big step heaver faculty control." Such an interpretation is quite unwarranted. There will be few to deny that the University has an interest in the development of new athletic facilities and that the placing of surplus funds in the hands of the University treasurer is merely a logical and commendable recognition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC TRUISMS | 5/17/1923 | See Source »

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