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Word: smashups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Europe's merriest royal couple- Crown Princess Juliana, almost nine months pregnant, and Prince Bernhard, now in his sixth week of recovery from a, motor smashup-spent the holidays in adjoining rooms of an Amsterdam hospital, their friends received their royal Christmas card. It bore a photograph of Benno's wrecked Ford, beneath it a verse in their own English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Lesson | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...time Asch reached Salt Lake City, after imbibing with oil drillers in a hotel room and looking over the Colorado sugar beet fields, his insides felt jolted loose and he was beginning to have nightmares in which he saw himself being mangled in a nation-wide traffic smashup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. in a Bus | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Many voters, moved by sentiment and not too insistent upon concrete results, pour forth mush on the subject of Cordell Hull and the New Deal foreign policy. Those who see in Mr. Hull a second John Quincy Adams should recall the smashup of the London Economic Conference as well as the financial spoliation of China, which are more typical of New Deal measures than most. They should also recall that the trend toward "big brotherhood" in Latin America began under a Republican administration while Roosevelt was still a scheming, incapable Governor of New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOSEVELT CONQUERS NEW HAVEN | 10/29/1936 | See Source »

...drive to Paris. When they got there, having beaten the train time by ten minutes, they found that their chauffeur, forgotten in the back seat, was dying of a heart attack. Evalyn's comment: "If he had driven us that day, and died while driving, smashup." So then should she have had to had buy a pretty another jewel. This time it was the Hope Diamond, which had a curse on it, and set her back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poverty Flat | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...lockman" started the trial by "fencing" the court in the name of the King. The jury was taken to the scene of the smashup. Attorney-General Moore outlined the case: ''If we find there is an explanation of this accident we will all be very happy. But if you are forced to the conclusion that this happened because Kaye Don chose to race 60 m. p. h. on the public highway in failing light and caused this man's death, then it will be your unpleasant duty to find him guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Don Before Deemster | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

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