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Word: senting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telephone from Barcelona Leftist Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto granted all these requests except permission to leave Spain, and sent three companies of assault guards to Teruel to see that Leftist militiamen kept order, took no vengeance on Rightist soldiers and civilians "surrendering with honor." By evening, when most of the civilians had been evacuated from the besieged garrison, Lieut. Colonel Rey d'Harcourt, who with his garrison had been on the verge of starvation for six days, surrendered in person. Captives totaled 40 important officers, 2,450 other ranks and about 3.000 civilians. Among the last to surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Surrender With Honor | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Impressed by these displays Andorra sent back its reply, "No Admittance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDORRA: No Admittance | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...electron a high-velocity kick. But some of it might be converted into matter which the electron would absorb, increasing its mass. The increase might be any amount at all, depending on the initial energy of the cosmic ray and the variable quantity of matter produced. Dr. Jauncey sent off a letter on these speculations to the editor of the Physical Review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hunch | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Dated May 17, 1768 and sent by way of Virginia's Acting Governor John Blair, Washington's letter sought from Gage a favor for some Virginian friends trading with Fort Pitt at the top of the Ohio Valley. They wanted Gage to promise not to make a boundary shift that would throw a block of Indian territory across their route between Fort Cumberland and Fort Pitt and give the market to the Pennsylvanians, who were trading over a more northern route. His request, said Washington, "can give no offense to the Indians, nor any one else, unless there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Washington to Gage | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...with the match. Manager Ed was desperate till Noah (Daniel Boone Savage), Sadie's discarded hillbilly swain, started taking pot shots at the troupe with a squirrel gun. Bearded Noah leaped at a chance to crush Joe's bones in public, winner take Sadie. Ed sent Joe in to lose, reversed his instructions halfway through the match when Madison Square Garden wired an offer. But when the troupe left, Loser Noah was Garden-bound, Winner Joe happy in the blacksmith shop with his admiring prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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