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Word: poppings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pop" Fosdick. as he was affectionately called by his "boys and girls" was one of the grandest men I have ever known. He left the firm imprint of his character on all who were privileged to come under his influence, and no matter to what heights his sons may rise, they will have difficulty in surpassing their father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 27, 1937 | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Highway 71 begins in Kansas City, ends at Baton Rouge, La. It passes through northwest Arkansas en route and serves the town of Rogers (pop. 3,500). From a drugstore window there, 35-year-old Clerk Cloe Mitchell often ruminated on the volume, speed and danger of passing traffic. Not long ago Cloe Mitchell decided to do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rogers' Reaper | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Zena escape to England, hoping to live there quietly as spectators of a world gone mad. They soon find both England and their chosen role impossible. Zena goes back to her native Russia; Julian despairingly enlists. Thereafter the narrative is governed less by probability than by convenience: coincidences pop up as required, scenes shift and actors speak as the prompter-manager too obviously dictates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clumsy Voltaire | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Maurico Liston, regular guard on the Pop Warner-coached Temple team for the past two years, has been appointed line coach of the Junior Varsity here, it was announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New J.V. Line Coach | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

...expressing his change of tactics. A firm rule of Filipino etiquet is that when a superior places a cigaret between his lips, a subordinate must quickly strike a match to light it for him. President Quezon is accustomed to having half a dozen of his Cabinet members pop up on their feet every time he takes out his cigaret case. Last winter when he wanted to take a military aide to the U. S. with him, he invited a group of West Point-trained Filipino officers to dine. When their U. S. training caused them to forget their native manners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Peace on the Pasig | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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