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Word: refugee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week on Budget Day even those indolent M.P.s who rarely put in an appearance rolled up in full force, jam-packed the House so thickly that Laborite M.P. Richard Gibson had to take refuge in one of the galleries with a host of peers, foreign diplomats and other bigwigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Soak-the-Rich | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Six winters ago a needy wayfarer sought and received refuge at the Cistercian Monastery. He was William Devro, a steam-shovel operator from Providence. Devro did odd jobs for the monks, proved useful when it became necessary to enlarge the monastery's reservoir. At a small weekly stipend Devro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words from the Silent | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Fifty Roads to Town (Twentieth Century-Fox) is an unambitious but consistently pleasant little farce, designed to exhibit as fetchingly as possible the qualifications of Producer Darryl Zanuck's latest discovery, Indian-blooded Don Ameche, whose fan mail at Twentieth Century-Fox has lately been second only to Shirley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

The Pitcairn Island group, well known from the novels of Nordhoff and Hall as the refuge of the "Bounty" mutineers, is scientifically remarkable as a classic of inbreeding and racial mixtures.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELL KNOWN PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS WILL MEET HERE IN RECESS | 4/2/1937 | See Source »

Dubya-Dubya was a spellbinder but his morals were not above reproach. Still, he taught Danny several things before the law cracked down on him. Danny's next refuge was with a well-to-do rancher's family. The two sons. Hank and Steve, became his pals, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Western Sandwich | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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