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Word: hides (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lifted up some of the corpses and crawled under them to hide myself. I stayed there for four days, among corpses. Most of them had a bag of catables, such as broad and choose. At night I took some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armenian Escaped Massacre by Hiding Among 10,000 Corpses and Playing Dead for Four Days | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

...Manhattan at a "Funds for France" dinner which she sponsored to feed children in Free France, best-dressed, frail Mrs. Harrison ("Mona") Williams was baited by a reporter who implied that to feed France was to help Germany. Said she tearfully: "I have nothing to hide. Is it a sin to be a Christian?" Said Guest Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.: "Mona, it's all so silly-everyone knows you are no more of a Nazi than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 14, 1940 | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...which might have pierced a thicker hide than Texas Jack's. Many of his colleagues in Washington wondered, too, why Mr. Garner had not even gone to the funeral of his old friend William Bankhead, Speaker of the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Texas Jack Back | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...suffer most by such action. Whether or not members of the faculty will take up Dr. Butler's challenge, we don't know. The result is more likely to be that those whose conduct is in "open conflict" with the pronouncements of the University will take pains to hide the fact; while those who agree with the University's attitude, but abhor restrictions on academic freedom in the name of academic freedom, are more likely to adopt a policy of "watchful waiting" till they can see how the principle is applied in practice. We too are waiting. --The Columbia Spectator

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...diapers. Among its many attractions are various over-sized lizards (alias ictheobrontosorsithiuses, er' somethin'), the super-colossal eruption of a gigantic volcano--in miniature, and a blonde named Carol Landis who kicks the stone-age gong around with nothing on but a smile and a bit of rhinoceros hide. Great fun for the kiddies between the ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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