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Word: stampeded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the identity of his father was long kept a secret from him, not until four years ago did Raymond Moulton O'Brien, British-born Manhattan oilman, suspect he might be the Right Honorable the Earl of Thomond of County Clare, Ireland. Son of his mother's first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

That morning on the Theatre's stage President Conant. flanked by President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell and by Harvard's oldest living graduate, a 95-year-old Boston lawyer named Henry Munroe Rogers (Class of 1862), blared his welcome to the alumni through two giant loudspeakers. He then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cambridge Birthday | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Still another suggestion was that the producers had arbitrarily boosted the price to put a quietus on a new form of platinum trading. In Manhattan two months ago a syndicate headed by Alexander Eisemann & Co., assisted by International Platinum Corp., began issuing warehouse receipts against platinum. Buying platinum at wholesale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Platinum Boom | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Lionel Stander is a shaggy young Jew of Russo-German descent whose sudden rise to cinematic fame in the past year can be traced, like so many others in Hollywood, principally to a misspent youth. Too independent to follow his father's profession of public accountant, he ran away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 27, 1936 | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

As automobiles (about 180 per hour on weekdays) reach this section, they are halted by police for a rigorous inspection of tires, brakes, lights, windshield wipers, mirrors, signal devices, loads. The driver is inspected for sobriety. Those who are let through are given a card stamped with the time of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ridge Route Tickets | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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