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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Butler took time by the forelock and refreshed the country's memory of how he won his first medal. His immediate audience was a group of grocers assembled in the same Philadelphia Elks' Club where General Butler was cut off the air for broadcasting the word "hell" while talking about his second medal-winning exploit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Butler to Grocers | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

Early last week Sheriff Johnson Henry Blair of Harlan County, accused of being a hireling of the mine companies, boasted: "We'll handle this thing ourselves. Hell, yes, I've orders to shoot to kill. When ambushers open fire on my men they'll shoot back and shoot to kill. That's what we use guns for here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Black Mountain | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Green Hell. About a month ago Count Edmondo di Robilant and Mechanic Mauranta Quaranta left Sao Paulo, Brazil in a fast Fiat pursuit plane, to reconnoitre a prospective air line to Bolivia. Forced down on a tiny clearing in a green hell of jungle, near the bank of the Paranapanema River, the two men set out on foot. They lost their map and compass. A box of crackers, their only food besides a jar of marmalade, was consumed by red ants while they slept. Bitten raw by insects, torn by thickets, nearly starved, the men pushed on through the swamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Lost & Found | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...squad will be made up of Hardy, Borwitz, Toole, Dehnke, Hell, Head, MeDuffy, Adama, Russell, Day, Mark, Bartman, and Weiele...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Learned Key-Carriers Set Out Today for Annual Yale Game--Hope to Whittle Down Last Year's Score of 50 to 2 | 5/15/1931 | See Source »

...best flyer aboard." From Acosta in New York: "If I had anything to say to Tony I'd say it to his face." According to the New York Evening Graphic, Acosta also said: "So far as Anthony Fokker and his book are concerned, he can go to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Uncle Tony | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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