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Word: sadie (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Parisian notables assembled to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, built to attract visitors to the Paris exposition of 1889. François Carnot hoisted above it the same gold-fringed tricolor, which, as the son of France's President Sadi Carnot, he had first raised on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gustave's Baby | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Jules Grévy tried a second term, left when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train, resigned. Two were assassinated: Sadi Carnot by an Italian anarchist in 1894, Paul Doumer by a Russian in 1932. Félix Faure died a natural death in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: M. le President | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...before the warm rush of praise that greeted the scientist from all over the world. Hundreds of persons who had been bitten by mad dogs rushed to his laboratory, and a public international subscription was opened to build larger quarters. Thousands of francs poured in, and in 1888 President Sadi Carnot of France, surrounded by a brilliant throng of cheering scientists, opened the Pasteur Institute. But the new Institute came too late to the old genius who had! suffered taunts and gibes all his life. As he gazed with pride at his spacious new buildings and modern equipment he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pasteur's Pride | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Today is Today. Today is Today, Today. Today is. By "Sadi Sadi" (Mr. Levy), a burlesque of sadistic art, showing a woman with her arm cut off and a set of malevolent teeth fixed in the stump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Faker Show | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Sheik Farhan refused to utter a word to the Court, kept repeating to himself passages from the Koran. His lawyer entered a plea of "not guilty," the court sentenced him to Death, and on the sixth morning after he crawled out of the wheat bin Sheik Farhan al Sadi was hanged by the neck until dead at Acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Acre Justice | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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