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Word: spined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week end 61 alleged plotters were tried in batches and executed, 53 by shooting, seven by the garrote which chokes and punctures the spine. More arrests were promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Conspiracy | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...rose and winged northwest on the first flight of her long-planned transatlantic mail service. Three hours later she put in briefly at the Foynes, Eire marine base, rose again trailing a weighted line for a refueling maneuver never before attempted in commercial transport service. Above her silvery-sleek spine flew an ugly, dark-snouted bomber converted into an air-going tanker. At some 500 feet the tanker's ejector flung out a grapnel. It hooked around the Caribou's line, skidded along to the tip, locked fast with a corresponding gripper. With the electric potentials of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Caribou | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Because his mood was ornery, hers kittenish, an elephant named Bill last August butted his 3,000-lb. mate, Hilda, into a 14-ft.-deep moat at their Prospect Park (Brooklyn) home. Death shortly came to Hilda. The fall had fractured her spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Retribution | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Manhattan Island is a stony spine of land occupied by millions of tons of masonry and 8,000,000 souls. To Europe it is a dream, to itself a business, and to the U. S. at large a cultural gold fish bowl. A lot of people this summer are going to see it for the first time. In sober moments they might remember the work of a woman who has devoted herself for ten years to seeing it, and making her camera see it, as material for history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Abbott's New York | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...seems that Harvard will always have the non-scholarly as well as the scholarly student. Undoubtedly the C man has a place; he is the spine of the extra-curricular activities, which in their way are as essential to college life as the curriculum. It is usually the C man who desires a broad education, but it is doubtful whether he would sacrifice concentration and tutorial-regardless of how little time he gives them-for a backward system based merely on course credits. No matter how intellectually incurious is a student, he prefers personal to mob instruction in theory, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEGY ON EDUCATION | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

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