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Word: silents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cambridge and Harvard have gone to bed. The Vagabond is hunched wearily in his dusty niche high on the silent rafters of Memorial Hall. The strange quiet of early morning is so intense that it pulsates sonorously, and by degrees his tired body seems to be dissolved into the infinite darkness and silence lying round about like a thick, suffocating blanket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/20/1934 | See Source »

...estimated that the service has working for it between 150 and 300 agents. Wild horses would not draw the correct number from Chief William Herman Moran. whose thick shock of white hair hangs over a hawk's nose and eyes, and whose close-cropped mustache covers a firm, silent mouth. He arrives in his office on the first floor of the Treasury Building at nine each morning. Through a barred window he can look across the lawn at the White House. When the lights wink on in the President's living quarters at night, Chief Moran knows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: Undercover Men | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...think it has done anything for the little fellows: I don't think there is much that can be done. You ask what will be the final outcome." Here Mr. Darrow was silent for a while. Then "Is there ever a final outcome to anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Deal an Anomaly, Does Not Benefit Small Manufacturer; NRA Not Permanent, --- Darrow | 4/13/1934 | See Source »

...reading room of the City Hall, facing the square. Too weak to speak, he read by the hour in Dante's Inferno. As the clock struck six one morning, the hour that ended his fast, Pereda sat up, crossed himself, bowed his head in silent prayer, then swallowed two teaspoonfuls of grapefruit juice. He was carried out of the reading room to an ambulance around which a silent crowd was waiting. From a hospital he announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Rocking-Chair Patriot | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...line, and was just being sent to the rear as a civilian when a Confederate bombardment blocked the way. When Pickett's charge came whooping over the wheatfields and up to the stone wall on Cemetery Hill Bale forgot he was a pacifist. Though history is silent on the point, Author Kantor gives his hero the credit of killing General Armistead. Bale found his man, not dead but badly wounded. The three days' fateful thunders had been too much for his mistress's conscience and she was glad to expiate her sin by nursing her crippled husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gettysburg | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

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