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Word: savers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disagreeing with most British opinion, Professor Darwin does not think that the American university or college is too heavily endowed. The elaborate equipment. Scientific or athletic, although often regarded as a luxury is a definite time saver and should be appropriated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Business Attracts Professors Away From Universities, "Says British Visitor--Darwin Regrets Commercial Taint | 3/19/1931 | See Source »

...sawdust trail is winding westward and Billy Sunday, saver of souls, is on his way. Behind him Sodom's smoke curls lazily skyward while a new city rises from the ashes. The surviving policeman declares himself lost in the new order, for he finds the wheels of authority greased with brotherly love rather than with the customary smooth oil of corruption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD AMERICAN GAME | 3/3/1931 | See Source »

Circumstances: modest Private Barajas never wore the medals he had won for saving the life of two comrades. Ordered to wear the medals, he refused; ordered a second and a third time to wear them, Life-Saver Barajas slew his tormentor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Sweets & Medals | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Aimee Semple McPherson, soul-saver, returned to the U. S. (via Paris) from a trip to the Holy Land, with Bibles, lamps, some Palestinian garments (to wear in the pulpit of her Angelus Temple Church of the Foursquare Gospel) and bright yellow hair (it was reddish when she left the U. S.). While she whirled away on a 200-mile week-end trip through the Catskills, U. S. Customs agents checked her luggage, levied $138 against her in duties and penalties for undeclared imports. Returning to Manhattan to find she had made Page One all over the U. S., Sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Roberta, 18, daughter of Soul Saver Aimee Semple McPherson, sailing with her mother from Palestine to Constantinople, fell from the upper to the lower deck of the boat, suffering severe injury. Her condition prevented Savior McPherson from accompanying her flock to Oberammergau, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 12, 1930 | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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