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Word: north (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House comes either Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison or North Carolina's Bob Doughton, fresh from a lunch with Franklin Roosevelt. (Sometimes they come out together, but this is usually considered bad stagecraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: New Twist | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...these raider rumors seemed remote and nebulous, the fate of 16,697-ton Rawalpindi was definite. This ship, a fast Peninsular & Oriental steamer requisitioned by the Royal Navy and armed as a merchant cruiser, was assigned to the North Atlantic contraband patrol. When she was sunk Nov. 23 southeast of Iceland with the loss of 280 lives, the Admiralty announced her attackers were two German raiders, one of them the pocket battleship Deutschland. The Admiralty said that when Rawalpindi ignored a shot across her bows, Deutschland fired a salvo with her 11-inch guns at 10,000 yards. Rawalpindi replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Raiders | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...newspaper also anounced that Finnish troops had "wiped out" two companies of Soviet troops in fierce fighting on the Carelian Peninsula north of Leuiagrad...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

...feet, rolled over the goal line with a Blue Devil atop it. From that moment on, Duke played diabolical ball. They intercepted passes, smothered ballcarriers, finally scored another touchdown to shatter Carolina's dreams of the Southern Conference championship and a Bowl-game bid. Duke 13, North Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...North American Aviation announced record earnings of $1.47 a share, up $1.17 from 1938; a little later it got a $20,000,000 British order that virtually doubled its backlog. But North American shares marked time between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Self-Restraint | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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