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Word: hilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rodman Gilder '40 escaped injury today when a wing of the glider he was piloting struck a tree near the take-off on North Sugarloaf to send the machine careening down the hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glider in Accident | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Rolly Hill of the Record: "With the absence of Macdonald and Hallett, I think the Big Green will come out victor. The Penn setback more or less took the starch out of Harvard. Final score: about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game Predictions by Local Sports Experts | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...Dartmouth and New Hampshire are coming to Cambridge for the annual triangular hill-and-dale contest. And although New Hampshire is an unknown quantity and not giving the Crimson over-much worry, Dartmouth is potent medicine...

Author: By Spencer Kiaw, | Title: HARRIERS RUN IN TRIANGULAR MEET | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...Beacon Hill hideaway is popularly supposed to be a scene of secret orgies between Bill Cunningham and a mythical secretary named Ima Smack that Bill once invented to explain his delay in answering letters. One day a Boston department-store executive gave Bill a life-size wax model of Miss Smack. Bill stretched her out among the littered papers on his couch, with her skirts up and a champagne glass in her hand, horrified an old gentleman who came to see him. Bill tried to explain that Miss Smack was a model, but the old gentleman went away muttering: "Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ill-tempered Clavichord | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Died. Robert Greene Elliott, 65, for 13 years official executioner for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts; of coronary embolism; in Richmond Hill, N. Y. Named for a Methodist minister who opposed capital punishment, tall, grey Robert Elliott electrocuted 400 persons, five of them women. Among them: Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Two-Gun Crowley, Sacco & Vanzetti, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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