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Word: hills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty minutes later as he drove down Capitol Hill he was feeling very much better because he had not only talked transfer effectively but, more important, had successfully withstood the hectoring of Wets who sought to evoke his personal opinion on Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Transfer Talk | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...scholars agree that the trinitarian references in the Bible are pious forgeries. The question of the divinity of Jesus is not worth a hill of beans. . . . We must scrap the Bible before we can attain church unity. It has no part in the 20th century civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unity in Columbus | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Corporation presidents do not usually conceive their companies' advertising campaigns, but no usual president is George Washington Hill of American Tobacco. The Reach for a Lucky idea came to him, he says, when he chanced to see a stout woman eating a sweet while next to her was a slender girl smoking a cigaret. During the height of the anti-sweet controversy he maintained that his campaign was really helping candy sales by focussing so many millions of minds on the subject of candy. Energetic, strong minded, Mr. Hill personally supervises many branches of his business, even to passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Curb on Advertising | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...When Professor Willis predicted another earthquake for Southern California the Los Angeles Graphic (society weekly) excited by a rival geologist, Robert Thomas Hill, assailed the prediction as "the incondite ravings of a mischief maker . . . God must have tipped him off." (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Snug as a Cat | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Other Harvard men who took part in the mixed doubles were E. B. Ward '30, who played with Miss Dorothy Blodgett; M. T. Hill '30, who was paired up with Miss Annette Hollis; and Fenno...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN WINS NATIONAL INDOOR TENNIS DOUBLES | 2/1/1930 | See Source »

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