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Word: leeched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witness John L. Leech, a onetime Communist, was cross-examined about an affidavit he was said by the defense to have signed, in which he related that four times in Portland he was offered money to identify Bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: On Angel Island | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...lucky thing for anthropology that Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced ah-leesh hurd-leech-ka), famed fossil man of the Smithsonian Institution, was in Moscow last week. A young Soviet archeologist named A. P. Okladnikoff announced the discovery of a fossilized Neanderthal skeleton on a high cliff in "Middle Asia." The bones were those of a child eight or nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Precious Child | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Included on the program are Haydn's Clock Symphony, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, and other classical works. As a modern selection an orchestrated medley of tunes from Jerome Kern's "Show Boat" will be presented by the combined orchestras. The baton will be shared by Miss Francis Leech of the Colby Orchestra and Malcolm Holmes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Sodality Journeys To Colby for Joint Concert | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

Smithsonian Institution's able Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka pronounces himself Ah-leesh Hurd-leech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...Telephone Co. for permission to erect a building without strikes. After two months of his one-year sentence President Wilson pardoned him, despite a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that the evidence in his trial proclaimed him "a blackmailer, a highwayman, a betrayer of labor and a leech on commerce." He was promptly re-elected to his union job. Last week Boss Boyle's only ostensible reason for darkening Chicago was to get back for his unionists the 39 days per year pay which the economizing city docked its employes in 1932. He conferred with Mayor Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Again, Umbrella Mike | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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