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Word: horned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mosque-capped hills were ablaze with light for a three-day and three-night celebration last week. Chains of brightly colored bulbs stretched from minaret to minaret of the treasured Mosques of Ayasofia, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mohammed the Conqueror. Below, in the four-mile stretch of the Golden Horn the Turkish fleet lay at anchor, with ship searchlights playing nightly over the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Atat | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...Burns is a 42-year-old Arkansan who grew up in Van Buren, Ark., became an itinerant laborer, vaudeville comedian and hobo until he joined the Marines in 1917. Most noteworthy achievement of Robin Burns up to this time was the invention and mastery of the bazooka, a homemade horn composed of two gas pipes and a whiskey funnel, which General Pershing once borrowed and tried to play in a Paris restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: New Pictures: Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his first U. S. performance of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony. Also Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Franz Joseph Haydn's D Major (Horn Call) Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...When an airplane climbs so steeply that its wings lose lifting power, it stalls, falls. Last week Langley Field engineers introduced a gadget that senses the loss of lift, blows a horn to warn the pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Finder, Feeler, Sounder | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

George Van Horn Moseley is a military freak. While in service most army officers feel obliged to bottle up their opinions, but he has not hesitated to announce his belief that more money should be spent on syphilis prevention and less on national defense, that immigration of Austro-German refugees should be facilitated but they should be sterilized before being admitted to the U. S. Last week tart, leathery Major General Moseley, having passed 43 years in the service and two in command of the U. S. Third Army, retired, as all army men must do at 64. News editors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Moseley's Day Off | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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