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Word: ribbons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...south they came, slipping through the low scud over Concord, over Claremont, over the Junction, and over Hanover: 36 planes of the Army Air Corps, throbbing like malignant bees. Perhaps they followed the thin silver ribbon of the Connecticut up from Springfield, maybe they streaked up the distended threads of the B. & M. from Boston. At any rate, it was perfectly evident that the Army Air Corps was protecting New England from the "enemy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lift Up Your Eyes | 5/28/1931 | See Source »

Triple winner in Class A was Kishon of Worcester Academy, who took the blue ribbon in the 12-pound shot put, and the hammer and discus throws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Andover Vaulter Breaks Schoolboy Record in Stadium As Exeter Leads Rivals in Saturday's Interscholastic Meet | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...perilous riding, he cancelled a trip to the Grand National Steeplechase (see p. 24). Said he: "I feel that the mere sight of horses going over the jumps would hurt every bone in my body." Also last week, in Paris, France's "Chariot" was decorated with the ribbon of Knight of the French Legion of Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...three years for income tax evasion. A Harding appointee in 1922, Judge Wilkerson sprang immediately into national prominence less than two months after he mounted the bench by granting a sweeping injunction (framed by then Attorney General Daugherty) against railway shopmen in the great strike that year. Fingering the ribbon of his glasses with an air of abstraction, he heard Mr. Capone's young doctor and nurses testify that, down with pleurisy, he had been in grave condition during February and March 1929. Then Judge Wilkerson listened to other witnesses who related how the supposedly bed-ridden gangster had taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: For Capone: Six Months | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...Note 3,380 2,243 American Commercial Alcohol 1,395 56 American & Foreign Power* 22,310 26,002 American-Hawaiian Steamship 1,187 285 American Locomotive 6,851 3,778 American Thermos Bottle 323 201 Baldwin Locomotive Works 2,300 3,036 Bon Ami 1,455 1,356 Century Ribbon Mills 27D 172D Chrysler Corp 21,902 234 Consolidated Cigar 3,314 2,372 Cream of Wheat 1,882 1,868 Drug 17,013 21,123 Gabriel 618D 98D General Bronze 1,128 969D General Printing Ink 1,378 850 Hayes Body 245D 852D Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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