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Word: riverbank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with its nose on the bottom, its tail sticking out of water. The watchers at Boiling Field, including the flier's wife and son, saw it all. Dr. Luis Quintanilla, counselor of the Mexican Embassy, and Naval Attache Manuel Zermeno jumped into automobiles, jounced over fields to the riverbank. Quintanilla and Zermeno flung off their coats, plunged in, swam to the plane, tried to pull Sarabia out. But he was inert, wedged in the cockpit, his head pressed against the instrument panel. When the plane had been towed ashore and Sarabia's body extricated, a coroner decided that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: I Shiver | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...they remain hints. Even suggestive words are disguised. Is the book dirty? Censors will probably never be able to tell. Melting and merging in Earwicker's dream-state, like smoke in a fog, readers sense Anna, the girl with whom he is in love: Anna on the riverbank, Anna Livia, Anna Livia Plurabelle. Through the menacing or ridiculous distortions of his dreams, the thought of Anna Livia breaks with singular lyric beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...race will be run over the regular flat course, approximately four and a half miles long, starting on the riverbank at the junction of Memorial Drive and Boylston Street on the Cambridge side of the river and finishing at the Newell Boat House on the Boston side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Teams Will Compete In Open Intercollegiate Cross Country Run This Afternoon | 10/29/1937 | See Source »

Having writen it down the Vagabond goes off to walk along the early morning riverbank and dream his morning dreams. His Love. Later is time enough to cease his dreaming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/5/1936 | See Source »

...family Mr. Wilken's late, whiskeymaking father. They could bring in Mrs. Wilken, Daughters Mary and Adeline (Mrs. McConville), Grandson Billy McConviilc. The Wilken family is shown, usually in shirtsleeves, sitting on barrels in their warehouse, gazing reverently at a picture of Grandfather Wilken, fishing on a riverbank near Schenley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Whiskey Names | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

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