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Word: lateness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Division (first U. S. troops to go overseas in World War I) met in Los Angeles, took the stump for neutrality. Said one ex-doughboy: "All that we lost in France in 1917 and 1918 was the flower of our manhood and our money . . . it's too late to go back and look for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War Party? | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...eight: one of the Kaiser's sons, the late Oskar's father Oskar, and seven grandsons-three sons of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, one of Prince Adalbert, one of the late Prince Joachim, two of Prince Oskar the Elder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Work | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...turned out, he was merely clearing a troublesome opponent out of Riggs's way. Duckwalking Bobby had little to do late in the week but watch Welby wallop stylists like Elwood Cooke and Wayne Sabin (who beat Quist). When the final round came Sunday afternoon, 21-year-old Bobby knew how to handle Welby. Bobby kept him moving, fed him no setup lobs, passed him at the net, caught him flustered and flatfooted with service aces, finished him off in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Bobby won the title, but the boy they talked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Near Titan | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...punched, hit high & low, dropped Lou with two lefts and an airplane spin, dropped him again and bounced on him, thumbed Lou's badly cut right eye and heeled it with his glove lacing, swung so hard with his murderous left that his pants almost fell off. Finally, late in the 14th, with quartfuls of blood on the canvas, on the referee's shirt, all over Tony & Lou, Referee George Blake stopped it, with Galento leading by all the tricks abjured by the Marquis of Queensberry rulebook. Nova, downed five times, was blinded by blood, rubber-legged, licked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beer Barrel Palooka | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Married. Michael Whitney Straight, 23, son of the late Willard Dickerman Straight, founder of the New Republic and Asia, and of Mrs. Leonard Knight Elm-hirst, queen of Dartington Hall, vast educational experiment in Devonshire, England; and Belinda Booth Crompton, 19; in Wilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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