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Word: silents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Argento, 46) started across a clearing directly toward him. They had their nerve with them. He let them come within 50 paces, then quickly gave them each a bullet in the belly. None of the other possemen dared show himself, not even to get the dead. The canyon fell silent. Day died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Beloved Enemy | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...small, dingy Paris room, where dregs of a stormy sunset filtered through the window, a young physician named Antoine Thibault found three people: a doctor, younger and more inexperienced than himself, a curious, silent, red-headed woman named Rachel, a little girl who was dying. Antoine was no surgeon, but incapable of taking thought without action, he decided to operate at once. He cleared the plates off the table, placed the child on it. He stripped the shade from the lamp. Sweating, exalted, anxious and yet confident, he thought, when the preparations went well: "I'm a wonderful fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nobel Surprise Winner | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

University is Silent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY MAY ACCEPT DEMANDS TO AVOID STRIKE | 3/9/1939 | See Source »

...business with cosmic scope. Mr. Mack is a relaxed Harvardman with intense blue eyes and nonchalance about money; he likes to consider himself a sort of clinicist for big business. Mr. Groves is a bald, shy Southerner whose financial talents have earned him several million dollars, a reputation as "silent man of Wall Street," and one Federal indictment for fraud and conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Design for Making Money | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...headwind and an hour behind schedule, he went down the south leg of the Fort Jones range, passed the Red Bluff localizer, reported that the Sacramento range was drowning out the Williams beam (which ground stations reported was operating without interference). Then, for almost an hour, Trip 6 was silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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