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Word: petitioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Juanita had gone around the world as far as Hawaii she stopped. There, at Waikiki Beach, she bought a tent (she calls it "Villa Petit Peep") and settled down to live until necessity or wanderlust beckoned her further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gelouries! | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Screamed Petit Parisien: "In impertinence, hypocrisy and false sentiments the German memorandum surpasses anything imaginable. The whole plan is an attempt to impose on the European problem a 100% German solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Plan v Plan v Plan | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...years was making trouble for France. . . . Your aim is not patriotism as you say; that is merely the snare to catch the foolish & to set yourselves up in the selfish & feudal powers & privileges of your party. It is your party that counts, not France, nor its peasants & petit bourgeois. . . . And you would bring war (not of defense, which is right & just) misery & distress, as though we have not suffered enough with our four invasions between 1814 and 1914. . . . Vive la République always! HELOISE COLOMBE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1936 | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Replying to your letter of May 16th, would say that Frank J. Fracassi was convicted in the City Court of Buffalo on May 10th of petit larceny, was placed on probation for one year and ordered to make restitution, by Judge Joseph J. Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1935 | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

...beyond reach of the millions of a Mellon, Frick, Morgan or Widener. At the opening notables made conventional little speeches of Franco-Italian handholding. Their banalities could not obscure the splendor and magnitude of the event. Last week a tourist in Paris could see in a day in the Petit Palais what in any other year would have taken a summer's zigzagging over the face of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: All the Italians | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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