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Word: reference (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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First white man on record to enter what is now Nevada was Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo Garces, priest of the Order of St. Francis. Seeking a route to upper California from Sonora, Mexico, he crossed what is now the State's southwestern corner in 1775. Let Reader Edwards refer to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dictionary of American Biography, C. A. Engelhardt's The Missions and Missionaries of California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...members of the Student Council these men would be representatives of the entire student body, not merely of a special section of it, as the present Committee members are. Again, as members of the Student Council the two new committeemen would be able to refer directly to their co-workers general athletic viewpoints and questions which may be expected to be brought first to the attention of the Student Council by undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARGING THE H.A.A. BATTERY | 3/23/1937 | See Source »

...German daily papers most death notices still refer to God, but last week a fast-gaining formula was to advertise that the German deceased "died in the faith of Adolf Hitler." The Cologne Court of Appeals upheld last week the decision of the lower court which recently jail-sentenced a Cologne smart aleck who replied to a greeting of "Heil Hitler!" by saying "Heil London!" According to the Court of Appeals, this is a "gross misdemeanor" like spitting on the Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: God & No. 7 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...witness chair sat a hard-faced, scar-lipped onetime Pinkerton detective named Daniel G. Ross, sales manager of an organization called Corporations Auxiliary Co. He was talking about Richard Frankensteen's 1935 vacation, and about his friend and his friend's "millionaire uncle." But he did not refer to them as "Johnny Andrews" and "Mr. Bath." He called them Agents L-392 and F-B. They were Corporations Auxiliary Co. operatives, hired by Chrysler to spy on the new union by gaining the confidence of its young leader. The bill for champagne, toys and other favors, paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: U. S. Terror | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...know how to refer legal questions to principles in moral and political philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Reform for New York | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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