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Word: hovels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflaming the doubters (he had his picture painted doing it); proud of the mail-train robbery near Rostov, when he hacked his way through the side of the mailcar and had to jump for it with the train still in motion. Joe Stalin could take it. When his hovel-mates accidentally set fire to some stolen stuff he had hid in the stove, he put a hand in the flames, salvaged only one 500-ruble note. When he was captured and was told to run a gantlet of soldiers swinging riding crops, he walked through, head high, holding a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Harvest | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

From the washer-woman's hovel to the mansion of state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Self Yulegies | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Comstock's boat: Dillingham, Klein, Ninde, Burr, Armstrong, Hovel, Moseley, and Mitchell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS AT CLIMAX OF OUTDOOR ROWS | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

When tragedy descends from Court to hovel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critic Finds 'Sound Supplants Sense' in Work of Hillyer, Boylston Professor | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

...striped chipmunks, birds, horny turtles, and a big-eyed, bangtailed buck. Joyously they lead Snow White to a slovenly little hut they know of. When the dwarfs who own the hut return from their day's work in the diamond mine, they are alarmed to find their hovel spick-&-span...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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