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Word: stakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offensive, announced the taking of 2,000 Leftist prisoners, nearly all youths under 20. The Rightists accused their retreating foes of having massacred 100 civilians of Alcala de Chivert before evacuating this town, claimed on entering it to have found the Leftists had burned the mayor alive at a stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Something New . . . Different | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...innovation, started last year by the P.G.A., which shows the finishing position of top-notch professionals in every medal-play tournament of the "stake-race" class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: True to Form | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Pulling up its stake at Harvard, the Bureau for Street Traffic Research will move to New Haven this summer to train Yale graduates for professional work as traffic engineers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bureau for Research in Street Traffic Moves to New Haven | 4/12/1938 | See Source »

...well did Mr. Hamilton know that, far from having to face defeat this autumn, the Republican Party is almost statistically certain to add to its offices. No Presidency is at stake on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of this

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elephant Boy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...stockholder, and in 1933 A. P. and his friend John Francis Neylan went on the National City board of directors, where they still sit. Thus the idea that A. P. was marching eastward again, a periodic rumor, was slightly absurd, because A. P. still had a heavy, if minority, stake in the East. His new stake in Chicago banking is even more of a minority stake because 15,000 of Continental represents only a 1% interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Eastward Giannini? | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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