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Word: periodical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alice Timleck, 36, mother of 17 (16 living), has also given birth to ten within the ten-year period covered by the Millar will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fortune for Fecundity | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...Last week the Department of Commerce totted up U. S. aviation exports for the first seven months of 1936, revealed a rise of some 30% over the same period last year. The $11,639,450 worth of orders from abroad went for 294 aircraft ($6,416,369); 409 engines ($1,902,768); spare parts ($3,100,270); parachutes ($220,043). Best U. S. customer was China, which paid $1,780,739 for 34 airplanes, 13 engines, various parts. Next biggest buyers were: Argentina ($237,670); Colombia ($148,002); Italy ($113,351); French Equatorial Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Statistics | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Lloyd Mills, Jr. '40 of Los Angeles, California, was the first Freshman to register as the College began the long period of waiting for the Quadricentennial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1005 New Students Register; First of 939 Freshmen to Receive Crimson Free | 9/26/1936 | See Source »

...during a period of "stabilization," copper men squeezed their price up to stratospheric levels of nearly 24? per lb. It was a cordial invitation to open every high-cost mine in the world. By 1933, the U. S. price was down to less than 5? per lb., foreign quotations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Copper Prices | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...period after the Napoleonic Wars, Prince Metternich of Austria became an almost legendary figure as the great defender of absolute monarchy, the subtle, far-reaching, implacable enemy of revolutions wherever they appeared in Europe. Traveling about the continent, he advised the dissolution of athletic societies in Germany as potential revolutionary groups, the suppression of the Carbonari in Italy for the same reason, while his counsel was sought when students rioted, soldiers mutinied, princes conspired. To conservative historians he has been known as the most accomplished defender of the principle of divine right; to liberals he appeared the archenemy of progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Divine Rights Defender | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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