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Word: holmesing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visitors on opening day received from the two crimson-gowned flunkies of the Royal Academy imposing leaflets which announced many royal and titled Patrons of the exhibit. But only a second Sherlock Holmes would have spotted in the roster the name of the man who conceived of the exhibition, sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Persia in Piccadilly | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

Gary, Ind., is essentially a steel city, its murky horizon is sliced jagged by towering smokestacks. An efficient Chamber of Commerce boasts to visitors that Gary has 515 acres of golf links, parks and playgrounds, a $1,000,000 community Church, a model public school plan. The visitor will listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: American Tragedies | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

Score--Harvard Seconds 6. Belmont Hill 3. Goals--Wadsworth. Walcott. Gilmore. Gleason. S. Bacon. Dewey. Foster. Braggiotti. and Holmes. Referees--Joe Boley. Frank Mooney. Time--Three 12-minute periods. SECONDS BELMONT HILL Walcott. Wadsworth. Bragiotti. l.w. r.w., Holmes. E. Emerson Gilmore. Mays. c. c., R. Bacon, Dewey Foster. McCaffrey. r.w...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECONDS AND 1934 TEAMS WIN | 1/8/1931 | See Source »

"The great, early judges were of the opinion that the human mind was incapable of fabricating a false consistency of events. At some point there would appear a physical fact to destroy it. This silent witness . . . was always standing in the background to be called by anyone who had the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Posthumous Mystery | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

(3 of 4) to this problem of government requires an approval and ratification of certain amendments by and in a convention and that the language of Article V can be taken as modified by the principles of political science." To buttress his views Judge Clark showered his opinion with nonlegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: William Sprague Decision | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

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