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Word: lawns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next thing Judge Bradley knew he was being yanked off his bench and dragged out to the court house lawn. Dozens of rough hands were mauling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: At Le Mars | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...Louis, the Pine Lawn fire department answered a summons to a blaze on Glen Avenue, discovered the fire to be in a garage owned by a man who had declined to subscribe $1.25 a year to the fire department, silently watched the building burn to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...hundred of the 174 girls at smart Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn, sat supping one night last week in the school's big, square "Four Corners" dormitory. All at once there were uneasy stirrings. At a crisp command the girls arose, marched out on the lawn. While teachers called the roll they watched flames writhe and shoot through "Four Corners." It soon burned to the ground and with it the belongings of 40 of the younger Walker girls-green wool and cotton uniforms, white crepe de chine evening dresses, riding habits. They had no place to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fire in Simsbury | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...trials for places on the debating team to meet Yale on April 28 will complete today for definite positions on the team and for the Coolidge Prize. The competitors are R. H. Amberg '33, F. deW. Bolman '35, J. B. Cahn '36, V. H. Kramer '35, H. M. Lawn '34, O. M. Lurie '35, M. J. Litwack '34, A. E. Phillips '34, S. M. Peyser '34, D. M. Sullivan '33, G. F. Oest '33. They will deliver a short speech on either the affirmative or negative of the subject: "Reselved, That the international traffie in munitions ought to be outlawed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIALS HELD TODAY FOR SELECTION OF DEBATERS | 4/18/1933 | See Source »

...chronic experimenter, he has tried cross-breeding flowers, chickens, cattle, with no definite results. He thinks, weather forecasting is on a wrong scientific basis. He bought a 6-ft. telescope, set it up on the lawn of his Des Moines home, spent nights stargazing. When he started to work out his own weather theory he was stumped on calculus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Senate v. Sun | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

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