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Word: roar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full half hour Felix Youssoupov played the guitar and sang gypsy songs while Rasputin calmly licked his fingers and showed no ill effects. Finally he let out a great roar and tumbled over backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rasputin & the Record | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer near Deshler, Ohio, 50 mi. south of the Chicago-Cleveland airway, heard a plane roar over his roof. He heard a motor cut off. He heard a crash in his wood lot. He found Lieut. Lowry's mangled body in the wreckage of his ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Army's First Week | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...order, there came, of course, the expected reverberations from the expected people. The two principal protestants were the National Association of Manufacturers and the United States Chamber of Commerce, both organizations bellowing against the monopoly which was, in their estimation, being placed in the lap of Labor. The roar goes up, "What about the self-government of industry?", a roar which rather well illustrates the position of the compliance division in the eyes of these gentlemen. There can be no doubt, I think, that the Executive order was the best of the alternatives open to the Administration. To retain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...doors open for the apparatus, another mechanism turns the traffic signals that are situated like beacons at the apexes of the triangular site of the station, from green to red. Traffic pulls over to the side and the engines roar out through the doors. After a minute and a half, the doors shut smoothly again as if a conjurer's hand had gently pushed them and the traffic lights turn back to green. Everything goes on with military precision and all the work is done in perfect quiet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Cambridge Fire Station, Opened Sunday, a Nest of Scientific Appliances Rivaling Rube Goldberg Machines | 2/28/1934 | See Source »

...summary: HARVARD BERRY Clement, Rawson, Ware, l.w. r.w., Cushman, Sommers Boardman, Quinby, Marcaux, c. c., Nelson, Dowling Robbins, Cort, Gleason, r.w. l.w., Denny, McDermott Roberts, Claflin, Marcaux, l.d. r.d., Baron Brown, Roberts, Gallagher, r.d. l.d., Roar Waldinger, g. g., Mergan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEES LOSE GAME | 2/15/1934 | See Source »

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