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Word: nones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve ton moving van then entered the scene from the left, and no sooner had the first pair of wheels left their impressions on the shell, then the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth pairs of wheels did likewise, none to be outdone by its predecessor. That was the end of the shell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: End of 150 Pound Shell Comes Just Before End of 7000 Mile Journey | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

Today the 1938 Harvard Varsity football team begins its third week of practice, and starting Monday, the morning sessions will be discontinued. Next week intensive work against the Brown plays will commence, for the season opener with the none too tame Bruin bear is hardly over a week away...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Varsity Football Team Starts Third Week of Practice on Soldiers Field | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...none of these excitements touched the heart of the issue, which remained what Franklin Roosevelt had made it: a specific judgment by Maryland on the past, present and future of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. In a memorably heavy vote, Maryland passed this judgment with relatively little disorder for a primary in which feelings had risen so high. Result: Millard E. Tydings unPurged by a ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARYLAND: Personal Judgment | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...sloe-eyed Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). Only a few months ago in Manhattan, Laborite Lombardo had professed himself certain that the Government of which his 1,000,000 workers are a keystone would never dream of bartering its oil with dictatorships. However, none of the delegates from the 13 Central and South American States represented* rose to embarrass Host Lombardo on this point nor did any of the big three "fraternal delegates" present: French Trade Union Tsar Léon Jouhaux, whose dues-paying followers number 5,000,000; the Minister of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Capricorn to Cancer | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Spode, Minton, Staffordshire may bring gleams to collectors' eyes, but none of England's famed potteries has quite so hoary or famed a past as Wedgwood. The first Josiah set up for himself in 1759, nine years later built a factory on 1,000 acres of land at Hanley. He became famous for his cream-colored earthenware (called ''Queen's Ware" for George Ill's Charlotte), was respected for improving turnpike roads, founding schools and chapels, was hated for espousing the cause of the upstart American colonies. Bit by bit the Wedgwoods disposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wedgwoods | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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