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Word: pining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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King's Mayor. Monday night and Tuesday the royal couple traveled through the pine-shadowed lakes of western Ontario. If it was late at night when the King and Queen passed through a hamlet, crowds that gathered to see the shuttered cars flash by waved their flags, but kept silent lest they disturb King George and Queen Elizabeth's sleep. At White River, "coldest spot in Ontario," the train stopped to service the locomotive. On the snow-sprinkled platform Indians, school children, townspeople hoping against hope that they might glimpse their sovereigns, were overjoyed when Queen Elizabeth, motioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Isn't It Wonderful? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Employing a fearlses net game that swept all before it, the CRIMSON tennis forces subdued a powerful Pine Manor team Saturday, on the Wellesley courts...

Author: By Two STAFF Correspondents, | Title: PINE MANOR COURT STARS ARE HANDED SETBACK BY EDITORS | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...match consisted of one set only, which the journalists took, 6-3. In a later exhibition set, the gallantry of the editors came to the fore and the P. M. girls were allowed to prevail, 6-1. The contest ended early in the afternoon because half of the Pine Manor aggregation had to go to the "Vill" for a hair...

Author: By Two STAFF Correspondents, | Title: PINE MANOR COURT STARS ARE HANDED SETBACK BY EDITORS | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...CRIMSON tennis team will journey to Pine Manor this week to seek its annual victory from the Wellesley racquet wielders. The Pine Manor aggregation is headed by Tillie Alston and Peggy Carpenter, ranking court stars, while the CRIMSON forces will be featured by a smashing Bronxville-Minneapolis combination. Pre-game odds establish the local boys as strong favorites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pine Manor Due For Setback | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...notes the pine tree growing in granite near Buford, Wyo.-in the early days of the Union Pacific, railroad firemen saw the struggling tree, kept it alive by emptying buckets of water on it as the trains passed. It retells the story of Hugh Glass, angriest man in U. S. history, who got so mad when his companions left him for dead that he chased them through 1,500 miles of wilderness to get even. Mauled by a grizzly, Glass was abandoned in South Dakota, crawled 100 miles to the nearest fort, set out for Montana for revenge before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Highway | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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