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Word: himly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Miami, Fla. a Negress claimed a $6.75 check payable to her late husband. Asked to prove that he was dead, she answered: "I shot him and I've got papers here to prove it." Her papers did. She got the check.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey is a 32nd generation Northumberlander. He studied engineering at London's Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Never more than a competent draftsman, he took to peddling bicycles, then advertising for a motoring journal, The Autocar. The Autocar's, editors presently discovered in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kiwi | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Grey's spunkiness delighted rich Jewish Banker Ellice Victor (later Sir Victor) Sassoon, inveterate flying bug, who agreed to back him in a new aviation magazine. In June 1911, Editor Grey brought out the first issue of The Aeroplane. Through several changes of management, many a near-fatal slump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kiwi | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Judas wanted to see the Kingdom of Heaven achieved on earth. When he realized that the upsurge of Jewish nationalism inspired by Christ was likely instead to make the Romans sweep away the remnants of Jewish independence, he allowed the Sanhedrin to flatter him into thinking it was his glorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Archtraitor | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Reporter Sheean begins with a bus ride through London which set him musing on England's insularity. "In such a state," he concludes, "what preoccupations can there be other than the desire to make money, and more money, and to keep it . . . with no thought for the world that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reporter's Return | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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