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Word: rodes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself out to Chestnut Hill the other night, and was asked to bring along two friends. Being one of those people that advertisers like to talk about, he didn't have any friends, so he went out, got himself two taxi drivers in the Square, dressed them up, and rode out. The girls like them. The taxi drivers enjoyed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night And Day | 8/1/1933 | See Source »

...months (TIME, May 29). While his wife and daughter, who were to testify, waited in Mrs. Harriman's apartment, he slipped out of the service en trance of his sanatorium, took a cab to a Hudson River ferry. Back & forth between Manhattan and New Jersey, Banker Harriman rode six times on different boats, gazing moodily at the water. Twice he started to climb over the rail, was hauled back by deckhands who failed to recognize him until hours later when they heard of the search. They last saw him driving away from the Manhattan pier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 24, 1933 | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...North End was the best residential district of Boston, now it is the Italian district. In North Square, the only structure of the period standing is the house of Paul Revere, the oldest house in Boston, erected in 1676 and occupied by Paul Revere at the time he rode his "midnight ride." Here the party will have an opportunity to view articles belonging to Revere in a setting the same as it was when he occupied the house. Nearby is Old South Church, the oldest church biulding now standing in Boston. From its steeple the signal lanterns of Paul Revere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tours of Historical Interest | 7/18/1933 | See Source »

...platoons of six"black-hulled, red, green, white"each platoon being formed by two tight triads. Soon all were moored, and General Balbo and his officers went ashore in motorboats to tread rose petals, cast by Italian children on their way to Londonderry's Guildhall. The 24 seaplanes rode at moorings, drinking gasoline by the hundred-gallon in preparation for the next jump to Iceland, en route to Chicago. But there were 25 that took off from the home base at Orbetello the morning before (TIME, June 26). Twenty-five crossed the Alps at Spluga Pass, roared over Zurich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Twenty-five, Less One | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...chance when Yale & Towne (locks) asked him to peruse their books, promptly made him treasurer. In 1911 he went to Studebaker in the same capacity, was soon jumped to president of the company which Harry and Clement Studebaker, wagon makers, had founded in 1852. President Erskine rode the 1921 deflation unharmed, a managerial feat cited in many a textbook. And in this depression President Erskine made money until 1932. Then he tried to swing the biggest motor merger of the year- purchase of White Motor Co. (trucks). Studebaker borrowed to finance the deal, but a few White stockholders prevented Studebaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 10, 1933 | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

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