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Word: screech (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the green finery in the yard and the early activity in the square hold his attention, his new toy steams ahead with magnificent disregard for housewives on their way to market. Brakes screech, ladies squeal, the policeman roars, but Mr. Ballantine, unruffled, speeds by with an air of quiet contemplation to the Music Building...

Author: By Edward Ballantine, | Title: Potraits of Harvard Figures | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

...longer will the Black Muria screech around the corner of Brattle Street with its carloads of inebriates, no longer will the boys in blue climb the steps of the old red brick building on the corner, no longer will Colonel Apted's confreres inhabit Brattle square--gentlemen, pause in your labors to shed a tear for the vanishing past--the Brattle Street Police Station is shut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRATTLE STREET COP-CAGE ABANDONED TO PUSSY-CATS | 5/3/1934 | See Source »

During a wrestling match in Alexandria. La.. Combatant Johnny Plummer became enraged at a ruling by referee Jack Dempsey, hit him. Referee Dempsey knocked out Combatant Plummer with three quick uppercuts to the chin. Up from a ringside seat scrambled 95-lb. Mrs. Johnny Plummer. She screech-scratched Referee Dempsey into a corner, tore his shirt, pulled his hair, drove him out of the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

Near Aguila, Ariz, one rainy night last week a bus scrunched along a soggy road, bearing 35 Mormon Church members back to their homes. Led by their Bishop Morris R. Perry, they had made a four-day pilgrimage to a Mormon temple at Mesa. Suddenly with a wrenching screech of jammed brakes the bus crashed through a detour sign which the driver had seen too late. Slithering off the road the bus turned over. When help arrived five Mormon women and a girl-baby were dead, all but two of the rest were injured. Said Bishop Perry: "There were only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church Bus | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...setting over cotton fields and scattered palms, bare purple mountains in the distant background. She's doing 58. Cut the gas for the turn into the irrigation plant enclosure. No pump Diesels throbbing, so Doran will have the radio going. Barely miss a skunk near the settling basin, screech to a stop behind Clary's new Ford 8 parked in front of the engineer's quarters. A little late, but "1933 marches on" into the yawping of ''Hooey'' P. Long's latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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