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Word: mcguffey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor & Mrs. Godfrey J. Ott of McGuffey, Ohio were tossed out of bed at 3 o'clock one morning last week when a dynamite bomb ripped off the south side of their bungalow. The explosion also broke practically every window in town and rudely awakened most of the 710 other residents of McGuffey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Onion Trouble | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...West Finley Township, Pa. went Henry Ford to visit the birthplace of the man who wrote McGuffey's Readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...inspected the crumbling house in which William Holmes McGuffey was born in 1800, found the timbers firm enough to permit reconstruction, took an option on the place with plans to make it a memorial. Motorman Ford owns many a manuscript and first edition of the famed readers compiled by William, onetime president of Miami University, Ohio and his younger brother Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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