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Word: hipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...initiated into the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Told to let himself down from a three-story window by a rope looped to the sash, he climbed out. The rope slipped, gave way, tumbling him to the ground. His parents, in China, were notified that he had suffered a broken hip, wrist, ankle, that he might die. One William Billow, likewise a Freshman, likewise a fraternity neophyte, was told to go to Harrisburg and get Governor John S. Fisher's signature. He was arrested breaking into a window of the Executive Mansion, later released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outbursts | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

Garet Garrett, 51, able onetime journalist, prolific writer on finance, politics, economics, was dining in a Manhattan restaurant when a trio of gunmen entered. Mr. Garrett, small, confronted one of them, was shot three times (chest, shoulder, hip). At a detective, who queried him at the hospital about the possibly private motive for the shooting, Mr. Garrett is said to have shied a small porcelain cuspidor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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