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Word: hoists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy for patrol service was the 267-ft. Hi-Esmaro, palatial $1,250,000 yacht of ailing Asbestos Tycoon Hiram Edward Manville; and for $140,000 the 206-ft Diesel yacht Lotosland, million-dollar pleasure craft of National City Banker Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds. Lotosland's seaplane hoist may prove useful, her pipe organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...additions hoist the Varsity total to 30 players with six more to be added by game-time Saturday. They include George Haydock and Jack Morgan, ends; Tom O'Loughlin, tackle; Jim Aldrich, guard; Ted Lyman, center; and Dave Goldthwaite, and Red Townsend, blocking backs...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: TEAM SHINES IN PRACTICE FOR AMHERST | 10/2/1940 | See Source »

Richelieu was one of the most cunning, adroit, far-seeing and resourceful minds in political history. First test of any great politician is to hoist himself into position where he can control the steering wheel of state at the decisive moments. Half of Richelieu's political lifetime was spent in getting behind the wheel. He got there first by attaching himself to the fat, sly, greedy, frightened Florentine, Marie de Medici, widow of Henri IV. She reigned for her 15-year-old son, Louis XIII, whom she used to spank publicly to the delight of the tittering court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conquering Cardinal | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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