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Word: lawns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Longmont, Colo., planted in a rocker on her father-in-law's front lawn, Mrs. Genevieve Johnson, 26, went into the second week of her Sit-Down to force her estranged husband to pay the $6.70-per-week separate maintenance awarded her by a court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes & Settlements | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...world's best 30 singles players, including Professional Jack Purcell who two years ago beat Hollywood's Willard for the "world's championship," the game spread quickly to Detroit, Chicago, Seattle. Badminton literature began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs 5 oz. to a tennis racquet's 13½ oz. Birds, still patterned after the Duke of Beaufort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Badminton's Rebirth | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...emerged Senator Robinson declared that the Sit-Down situation had passed its crisis. Mr. Garner said: "I am deaf, dumb and blind." Paterfamilias Roosevelt took his family to church on Easter, cast a beneficent smile on the Easter Monday egg-rolling for 53,000 children on the White House lawn. Unless a real strike crisis forced him to it or until he was ready to use it as an argument for his Supreme Court plan, Sit-Downs were apparently one platter of potatoes on which Franklin Roosevelt did not intend to singe his Presidential fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Back to the Front | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Washington was seething with sightseers left over from the Easter holidays. At the same time that 53,000 egg-rolling youngsters were trampling down the fine green turf of the White House lawn, 4,000 of their elders were exploring the marble corridors of the new Supreme Courthouse. Little did many of them know beforehand of the momentous things that might happen during their visit. Little did they know when something did happen, for the courtroom was too small to admit more than a fraction of their number. But the connoisseurs knew and were present. Stanley Reed, Robert H. Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Chambermaid's Day | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Democratic party. Rancher Pereyra Iraola had ridden over from his neighboring estancia, San Simon, where he breeds some of the Argentine's finest horses. The next to youngest of the Pereyra Iraolas' seven children, 2-year-old Eugenio, was playing on La Sorpresa's big lawn and had just had his dinner. His mother left Eugenio to his nurse to welcome her husband on his return. The nurse left Eugenio for a moment. When she returned he was gone. The nurse and the Pereyra Iraolas frantically searched the woods at the edge of the park. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: At La Sorpresa | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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