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Word: roses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although beaten at both Yale and Princeton this year, blind Robert G. Allman, shifty 118-pounder, rose to new heights by planing undefeated Harvey Ross with a half-nelson and body hold. Ross, like almost every other Crimson grappler, found it impossible to gain the advantage, once down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENN CRUSHES MATMEN AS 1941 WINS, 16 TO 14 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...title part will be sung by Rose Pauly, famous interpreter of Strauss roles, both in central Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Mino Pauly's "Elektra" has been outstanding in the current New York operatic season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

...rose and gave a long speech, wherein be waved his arms and cried and boasted, so that the people, fearing, granted him a rocket car. Smiling, Eng invited the neighbors living one mile about him to sign the paper which said they could drive the car. They did, and there was much laughter and teasing, and many took turns driving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...empty house (see cut, p. 8). Later he inserted in the Congressional Record his New Year's greeting to "all the people in the U. S. and throughout the world." One day last week, as the House was rapidly dispensing with its initial daily routine, Representative Dunn rose to ask unanimous consent to address the House for 20 seconds, on the advisability of a wages-&-hours bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bill | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...camp contains about 32,000 prisoners. They are kept there until death results from hard work, bad food and consequent sickness. I met two American citizens in the camp, Arthur Hanley, a chemical engineer from California, and Edward Rose, a machinist from Boston, Mass. They said they came to Russia in 1921 as volunteer workers. Rose said he was arrested in Leningrad in 1923. Hanley was caught trying to escape from Russia to Latvia in 1925. Each was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, but, although they have served out their sentences, they are still being held. They told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: 32,000 & Mrs. Rubens | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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