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Word: hille (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driving 1,400,000 miles without accident or arrest Allen Bush Hill, 55, of Corpus Christi, Tex., was last week awarded a $150 Elgin watch and the title "World's Safest Truck Driver" by the American Trucking Associations.* During the 30 years it took him to establish the record, he averaged 46,600 miles per year, not counting nine months driving with the A. E. F.'s Fifth Engineers. More than a quarter of his mileage was covered in one G. M. C. truck. Driver Hill advised: "Give all the road you can, take all they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Records, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...jolly octogenarian as benevolent and motherly as she is forceful, Mrs. Knox goes to her office about 9:30 every morning, writes as many as 50 letters before lunch, even replying personally to queries from housewives who have misread recipes. At her Johnstown home, "Rose Hill," she has hothouses full of orchids which she likes to give to fellow townfolk. She has also given them an old ladies' home, athletic field, set of chimes. The Knox factory pretty completely supports Johnstown and in 1929 Knox employes tacked up a plaque in their lobby with the legend HAPPINESS HEADQUARTERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Happiness Headquarters | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Richard Whittemore '40 plays the leading part in "Straight Scotch," the Dramatic Club's fall show, it was announced yesterday in a complete listing of the cast. Miriam Clark, of Chestnut Hill, has the main feminine part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITTEMORE TO PLAY LEADING ROLE IN H. D. COMEDY IN DECEMBER | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

...four weeks ago, again failed to materialize last week, was postponed from mañana (tomorrow) to mañana (tomorrow). What attacks there were on the Aragon front were all on the Leftist side. A brave but foolhardy attack by Catalan militiamen against a Rightist stronghold known as Hill, 1100 was beaten back after a loss of some 400 men caught in a blast of machine-gun fire on the barbed wire. Not even one Spanish square mile changed hands last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Manana | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...pavement, bloodied his nose. King George and the Cabinet stood like ramrods, eyes front, ignoring the scuffle (see cut). Queen Elizabeth gasped, clutched at her throat, then relaxed when danger was past. The tousled protestant turned out to be one Stanley Storey, escaped from the Cane Hill Insane Asylum on Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eyes Front | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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