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Word: retch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answering Moscow's objections before the House of Commons, admitted that the Soviets were suspicious of being drawn into an anti-aggression alignment in which they would be left "holding the bag" if Fuchrer Adolf Hitler's armies should strike castward to obtain more territory for the expanding German Retch...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

People whose daily diet is strychnine retch at Cindy Lou's syrup. Her magnolia-bud ways with men make women who get their guys through manhole methods rage. Swiftly the whole house-party gangs up on her. Then Cindy Lou hits the roof, butts a fat columnist (John Alexander) in the belly, gives the crowd a 100-stripe tongue-lashing, spoils everybody's fun, cooks everybody's goose, flashes a revolver, and winds up with as much loot in Connecticut as Sherman's men got out of Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Professor Fay stated that the union of Austria and Germany has "shifted the balance of power in Europe in favor of Germany and of might over right, but the Ansehluss will increase the problem of feeding the 78 million Germans in the enlarge Retch. Austria's foreign trade and tourist traffic will suffer severely because Hitler will clamp down the right German system of currency control and foreign trade regulation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hopper Predicts Russian Assistance in Air for Czechoslovakia in Face of German Aggression | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...harshest blow at the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin thus far, Punch last fortnight cartooned the fact that the Prime Minister is supposed to favor Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain as his successor in a manner calculated to make squeamish Britons retch. With a beaming expression on his round face, Mr. Baldwin is shown thrusting the juicy mouthpiece of his famed old pipe under the beaknose of Mr. Chamberlain whose eyes bulge with revulsion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...FRIDAY, MAY 31 (V) Anthropology 21 Harvard 5 Biology B Geol. Lect. Rm. Chemistry 13 Mallinckrodt MB8 Economics 10b Harvard 5 Economics 16b Harvard 5 English 10c Sever 1 Fine Arts 9a Fogg Small Rm. Geology 10 Retch Bldg. Geology 24b Geol. Mus. 51B German 2 (see footnote*) Dr. Zipf, Sec. 5 Sever 5 German 26b Harvard 5 Government 29b Memorial Hall Government 34 Harvard 2 Greek A Sever 31 Greek G (see footnote*) Mr. Leighton, Sec. 1 Sever 32 History 2b Memorial Hall Japanese 2 Harvard 5 Latin B (see footnote*) Dr. Little, Sec. 4 Sever 17 Mathematics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Examination Schedule | 5/31/1935 | See Source »

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