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Word: neb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Called to the phone from his 44th birthday dinner, little Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria heard the voice of an old friend, Bulgarian-born Locomotive Engineer Gus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. Mr. Phillips had met the Tsar, an enthusiastic locomotive driver, on a trip to Bulgaria in 1932. After exchanging $31 worth of pleasantries, Tsar Boris rang off. Previous gifts that have passed between the Tsar and the Nebraska engineer include two miniature locomotives from Gus Phillips, 16 bottles of choice wine and a diamond stickpin from Tsar Boris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...secretively in a few cases I fear) copies of that book. Concert night, the program notes stated that Mr. Cadman's composition had been influenced by the writings of George W. Cable, at which statement several of us held our tongues in our cheeks. . . . A. F. MUENCHOW Omaha, Neb...

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

...anecdotal Cape Cod Pilot, which includes a vivid account of the sinking of the submarine 8-4 off Provincetown, manages to treat old and new Cape Cod with the same good-natured detachment. Almost every book shows flashes of inspired writing. Even the pedestrian Lincoln City Guide of Lincoln, Neb. brightens up in its account of the temperance movement and the wonders of Nebraska weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mirror to America | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...Joseph P. Lyford, Wilton, Conn.; Denis J. Maguire, Brockton, Mass.; Henry W. Maxwell, Jr., Hinsdale, Ill.; George P. Mayhew, West Roxbury, Mass.; Elbert M. Moffatt, Jr., Bombay, India; Edward C. Moore, St. Augustine, Fla.; Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., Baltimore, Md.; David P. Oakes, Seattle, Fla.; Charles H. Oldfather, Lincoln, Neb.; Melvin Pollard, Dorchester, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UPPERCLASSMEN GIVEN AID TOTALING $3000 | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...Chadron, Neb., two men arrived at the town jail to visit their inmate brother. Sheriff William Moody locked them up with their brother, promptly forgot them, went off to a meeting in another town. Several hours later he remembered, telephoned his wife to release them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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