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Word: hydrants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tucson, Ariz., Marjorie Volke set out for a drive, noticed a traffic ticket under her automobile's windshield wiper. Without stopping her car she reached for the ticket, skidded into a hydrant, released a geyser. Autoist Volke's bill (for the hydrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Hume lost his vision because of a frosty windshield. He slowed down to clean it off by moving into a large snowbank at the side of the road, since it would save his rather feeble brakes undue exertion. Like the boy who tackled the snowman built around a fire hydrant Hume found that all is not snow that drifts. The ancient carriage demolished itself against a submerged culvert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR RUINS FORD AFTER USING SNOWBANK AS A BEAKE | 1/12/1939 | See Source »

...minions of the law with their four red towing trucks were the center of an inquisitive crowd which gathered in front of Fogg Museum to watch the operations. Nine of the cars were parked on the wrong side of the street and one was parked next to a fire hydrant in front of President Conant's house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE HAUL OFF TEN CARS IN SUDDEN RAID | 12/1/1938 | See Source »

...Manhattan, arrested while hacking at a fire hydrant with an ax. James Boyle explained in court: "I found the ax on my way home from a tavern and just couldn't resist the impulse to chop something down. I used to be in the Civilian Conservation Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Scotland Yard was printing last week exclusively for Scotland Yard a series of maps of the Coronation Procession route drawn to the phenomenally large scale of one inch to 88 feet, showing every lamp post, fire hydrant, sewer cover. To within a few inches these maps mark minutely where the Royal Coach is to be driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Responsibility | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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