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Word: rodes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...crowd pinned him down. As police dragged the oldster to safety he shrieked: "How dare they do that to a little girl of 13? Poor little innocent-making an exhibition of herself at that tender age! I think it's awful." Unabashed, Lady Godiva calmed her rearing mare, rode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Prissy Peter | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...firm's first Government job. Peter James started in the family business 22 years ago, has taken only one vacation since-his two weeks' honeymoon in 1935. He smokes two packages of cigarets a day, but keeps fit by swimming, golf, handball and horseback riding. Once he rode a jumper in a Madison Square Garden horse show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Cold Storage | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...though the spirit was daring, the flesh was weak. Some of them rode in wheel chairs. It looked like their last reunion. Spain will be fortunate if, in 2013, such a reunion can be held on the battlefield of Teruel-with Fascism and Communism as well forgotten as are slavery and abolition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: 75 Years After | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...Tara yearned to sail the 3,000-odd miles to Cocos Island, off the Costa Rican coast, where legend says pirates of the Spanish Main used to bury Inca gold. Into the pattern of his dream fitted the snug white 52-foot ketch Tira, which most of the time rode baresticked at her mooring because her owner, well-to-do Lew Foote, a busy Santa Cruz merchant, had little time for long cruises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Spring Odyssey | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

While Premier Pattullo was challenged to resign and stand in a by-election on the unemployment issue, the sit-downers crossed Burrard Inlet by boat, hitchhiked or rode the rods to descend on the dignified, heavily policed little capital city of Victoria, on the southeast tip of Vancouver Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Rabble Rout | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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