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Word: poppings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nicholas Stephanos Vasilakos echoes with more than sentiment to some persons. It echoes with romance to me and many others who have bought the wares of this peanut and pop corn vendor. Across "the Avenue" "David Belasco's" theatre rests. Many a romantic couple have before or after the show bought of the man on Pennsylvania & East Executive Avenues. More romantic, however, have been the purchases of this man in the form of peanuts to be fed to squirrels and pigeons across the way, as cater-cornered to N. S. V.'s stand is a small park where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1934 | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...seat of Jefferson County is Louisville (pop. 1,650) which was the capital of Georgia from 1795 to 1805. In the centre of the town's old-fashioned Common still stands the roofed block on which until 70 years ago slaves were sold at auction. Above the block hangs the bell that summoned buyers and sellers of black flesh from the surrounding countryside. Last week, for the first time in years, proud little Louisville (pronounced Lewisville) found itself in the bright beam of national news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Terror? Tumble-Bug? | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...Lake to shut down for weeks at a time. Now owned by Denver & Rio Grande, the road pierces the Continental Divide through the Moffat Tunnel at an elevation of only 9,000 ft., coasts gently down the western slope of the Rockies to its western terminus at Craig, Col. (pop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rails & Roads | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...Smaller: Pierre, S. Dak. (pop. 3.659). Carson City, Nev. (pop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tiny Victory | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

Many a citizen of Lansing. Mich. (pop. 80,000) despaired of adult education in his city last May when lack of funds shut down the municipally-financed evening school. But such defeatists reckoned without Try. (for Trygve) Narvesen, Norwegian-born secretary of the local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: People's University | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

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