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Word: holmesing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In order to make room for the new gymnasium, Gannett House, a frame building dating from about 1830 and now used by the Harvard Law School, will be moved within the next month a short distance from its present location at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Holmes Place. It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer School, Features Summer News | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

¶ Liveliest White House visitor of the week was 85-year-old Mrs. Anne Howell Kennedy Findlay. During the Civil War, on the street outside her house in Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Findlay's mother found a young Union captain wounded in the throat, took him indoors to be cared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Parables and Prospects | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Souls at Sea (Paramount). On the foggy night in 1841 when the packet William Brown, Liverpool for Boston, disastrously rammed an iceberg off Newfoundland, a seaman named Alexander William Holmes made maritime history. Seaman Holmes, seeing that 32 survivors were too many for his longboat, constituted himself, a sailor and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 23, 1937 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Less astounding than it sounded, Senator Borah's contention was based on a fine definition. The U. S. Constitution provides that "The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall at stated times receive for their services a compensation which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Mad Hatter's Dialog | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

BEN HOLMES

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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