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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving Paris for Germany last week was tall, well-built, 21-year-old Grand Duke Vladimir, who two months ago inherited through the death of his father, Grand Duke Cyril, the title of pretender to the extinct Russian throne. Ostensibly "Tsar" Vladimir was going to Germany to visit his sister, the Grand Duchess Kira, wife of former Kaiser Wilhelm's grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand, remembered in the U. S. chiefly as a onetime Ford automobile factory worker. Actually, bigger things than a mere family reunion were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: What Will Mr. Stalin Say? | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...SISTER EILEEN-Ruth McKenney- Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...class chess team, made Psi Upsilon, was elected a class officer in his senior year. After his graduation in 1872, he got a law degree at Columbia and practiced law in Manhattan for twelve years. At 38, bored with the law, he retired and married a Yaleman's sister, Alice R. Goode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale's Cobb | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Married. Sally Poor Clark, 18, night-club-singing sister-in-law of John Aspinwall Roosevelt; and George Xavier McLanahan, 25, socialite; in Boston. John Roosevelt was one of 16 ushers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

After a brief career as a bond salesman in Baltimore a smart young man named Wallace Groves went to Washington in the early 1930s, entered Georgetown University law school. He had a brother in the small-loan business in Baltimore and a sister with some money. Soon Wallace Groves had small-loan companies scattered about the District of Columbia, nearby Virginia and Maryland. In 1931, having merged his companies with a Chicago concern, he sold out, decided to try his hand in Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Disaster on Regardless | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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