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Word: roading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday morning a lacrosse unit, 17 strong, will take the road enroute for extremely of Pennsylvania, Maryland and the Navy. First to move into action will be Coach Rene Percy's fencers, who are competing in the Intercollegiate Fencing association's forty-sixth annual individual and team championship tournament today and tomorrow, in New York City's 17th Regimental Armory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball, Lacrosse, and Fencing Teams Embark Upon Annual Spring Games | 3/31/1939 | See Source »

...world knew that Germany now economically and politically dominated emasculated Czecho-Slovakia. But the fact that Germany had recently gone through the diplomatic motions of requesting (and getting) currency adjustments, railroad, road and canal rights-of-way across Czecho-Slovakia seemed to indicate that the Reich was content with de facto subjugation. Had Herr Hitler not said that all he wanted was to get all the Germans back together again? Had he not signed a declaration with Britain not to do anything that might disturb the peace of Europe without consulting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Surprise? Surprise? | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Once upon a time a strong young man found a crippled old man lying in the road, who asked him for a ride on his back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Jinni | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Brought before the Actors' Equity Council, charged with using abusive language backstage, James Barton, who played oathsome, loathsome Jeeter Lester in Jack Kirkland's racy Tobacco Road for 1,674 performances, retorted: "Imagine an actor in a Jack Kirkland show being charged with bad language!" He was ordered to be "reprimanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...boys on bicycles meandered along a Dorsetshire lane. Suddenly over a dip in the road roared a motorbike, doing about 55. To avoid the boys its rider swerved violently, skidded, lost control, catapulted over the handlebars. Six days later, without regaining consciousness, he died. So finished, at 46, the man known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I.E. | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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