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Word: olympias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pioneer spirit, dead in Omaha, still flickering in Seattle; in the talk of the loggers on the Skidroad at Yesler Way, in the logging camps, the history of the wobblies and the Weyerhaeuser fortune, in the remark of a Seattle housewife: "I have got to go over to Olympia tomorrow to help put pressure on the governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Landmarks | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...easy. This is fairly obvious. Others, including Geography 31, are "snaps" because they are too difficult. This paradox resolves when it is understood that the examination questions (in, e.g. geography) are too complex to be answered by anyone short of a Van Loon. The professor, gazing sympathetically from his Olympia, recognizes this by giving generously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: READING KNOWLEDGE OF CHINESE NOT REQUIRED | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

...Olympia, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Thus, in San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral one day last week, did Bishop Arthur Huston of Olympia read the Epistle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Block to California | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Next day, as all La Salle Street speculated whether he would ever get Tuerk's share of the 290-acre farm (the title is in Mrs. Tuerk's name), Golfer Ferebee was back at the Olympia Fields course, playing his regular Saturday afternoon foursome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stroke a Minute | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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