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Word: ranging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until he had been out of Parliament 15 years did Lord Beaverbrook see his old hobby horse E. F. T. come home a winner. Taking the stump with an alarm bell which rang every minute to indicate that $5,000 worth of foreign foods had gone into British mouths, he ranted through the general elections of 1931 with such good effect that Stanley Baldwin took over part of E. F. T. in the Conservative Party platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Long before the church bells rang, perspiring circulation men dumped at least one of the fat papers free on every Columbus doormat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Papers | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Burnett, Macdonald's understudy who played most of the second half when Torb retired with his biffed eye, rang up Harlow's fifth touchdown on a very fine 50-yard run. By this time the team's blocking had taken a definite brace. After Green had intercepted an enemy pass and Virginia got a 15-yard roughness penalty for flagrant piling on top of Gardella, Harvard pushed over its final marks, with Smith, who relieved Gardella, going over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football--- | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...doorbells were never labelled, and many of them seemed to be figure heads anyway, so it you wanted Bagdssar Gondolfe you just rang all at once, and you might get somebody, but it was rarely the one you wanted...

Author: By John T. Mccutcheon jr., | Title: Disguised Students Canvassing for Republican Votes Find Ignorance of "Dat Guy Harvard," Support of Thalberg | 11/10/1938 | See Source »

Fortunately the No. 1 French Mayor, famed Edouard Herriot of Lyon (220 miles up the Rhone above Marseille), was attending the Radical Socialist Party Congress. Huge Mayor-and-former-Premier Herriot, who looks as though fit to burst with the famed cuisine of Lyon, promptly rang up his city hall, ordered: "Put some of our Lyon fire engines on railway flatcars and rush them here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fire | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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