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Word: reno (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fugitives from Nanking and Shanghai snarled and haggled their way through Canton's grimly thorough customs inspectors, then burst into a boom town. Canton this week was Reno and Juarez, Galveston and Eldorado-all wrapped up in dazzling, neon-splashed tapestry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Exile In Canton | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Tiger swordsmen welcomed Coach Reno Peroy's varsity fencers Saturday by cutting short their two match winning streak with a 15 to 12 defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Swordsmen Touch Crimson, 15-12 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Clergymen at Reno, Nev. (which had 24,354 marriages as compared to 6,464 divorce actions last year) adopted a new code of ethics: "No minister should commercialize the performance of weddings by making deals with taxi drivers, courthouse employees, or any other individuals who may act as solicitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. By Gloria Swanson, 49, siren of the silent screen (now making a comeback as mistress of ceremonies on a television show): fifth husband William M. Davey, 65, Wall Street yachtsman; after three years of marriage, no children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Married. Victor McLaglen, 62, hulking cinemactor (The Informer, Gunga Din); and Margaret Pumphrey, 48, Seattle socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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