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Word: nicholases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"The next morning 'Nicholas Spicer' learned that two policemen were on the lookout for the man who struck Billy Patterson. . . . His distaste for legal proceedings caused him to lay the case before a friend at the hotel. . . . This gentleman engaged two newsboys to traverse the streets of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

But whatever theorists have said about small mechanized armies, the fact is that every country on the Continent (except Monaco, Luxemburg and Liechtenstein) has conscription and that, far from the armies becoming smaller, they have grown by divisions. Every time Britain started to make commitments on the Continent (such as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cannon and Fodder | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Gunning for an endowment fund ($50,000,000) for Columbia University, aged (77) President Nicholas Murray ("Nicholas Miraculous") Butler quipped: "If anybody wants to kill me, he can give us that $50,000,000, and I'll die from joy."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Nine men were appointed to the Circulation Board of the Freshman Red Book, Frederick W. H. Bradley, chairman of the Circulation Board announced last night. The nine were Albert M. Chandler, Jr., Robert F. Cutting, 2nd, William P. Jacobs, William D. Jones, Harrison F. Lyman, Jr., Nicholas Savage, Gilbert A...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Book Appointments | 3/29/1939 | See Source »

That Hitler had the card was hinted last week when the Hungarian Foreign Minister was one of the small and distinguished party-including the Japanese and Italian Ambassadors-which shared Herr Hitler's triumphant arrival in Berlin (see col.3). Nicholas Horthy, Hungary's Regent, was scheduled to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Surprise? Surprise? | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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