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Word: sofas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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They found him last week in a bad district of Cleveland, sprawling on an apartment-house sofa, his skull bashed in and a bullet in his head. He was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: From the Statesman's Window | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...without sin among you heave the first sofa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN, BOYS, AND BOTTLES | 10/30/1930 | See Source »

...White House household; 2) the $5,000 the Tafts had saved on entering the White House and the $80,000 they had after two years; 3) "Little Charlie [the President's son] is a great bookworm and spends most of his time curled up on a sofa reading. . . . On inauguration day he took to the Senate Treasure Island - to read, he said, in case his father's address bored him"; 4) "Helen Taft [Mrs. Frederick J. Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr] is a nice girl and very intelligent without being a prude"; 5) "When the music began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dear Clara | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

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