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Word: moring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tom Brown's School Days is a book more people have heard of than read. Its author, Thomas Hughes, was Englis has a mutton chop. Chief interests of his life were cricket and Utopia.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Trees | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In 1880, around a tract of land which he had bought in northeastern Tennessee, Utopia-hunting Tom Hughes founded a colony. Invited to join were the younger sons of English gentlemen, who were barred by tradition from inheritance, by custom from working for their living. The colony was named Rugby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Trees | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

To the stand went a score of witnesses: Mrs. Lela Wyatt, who divorced the classroom Casanova in 1936 after finding him "more times than she could count" with Mary Jo; Thelma Powell, buxom waitress, once the object of his affections; his sisters and his friends. Seven of them gave him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Classroom Casanova | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

. . . General Sherman said: 'Madam, you got spunk'"). Last week Atlanta was more self-conscious of its present and its past than any other U. S. town.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In the beginning, in 1836, Atlanta was the spot of red clay where one Hardy Ivy had his cabin, and where an engineer named A. H. Brisbane chose to drive a stake. Because the stake marked the end of the new Western & Atlantic Railroad, the town-to-be was called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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