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Word: stools (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disclosure was made public late last night when an unidentified stool-pigeon reported to the Harvard headquarters that the Elis had "nefariously inveigled their honorable contestants" by substituting the more effective large balls for the more skill-testing small ones, which the Crimson police used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Cops Gypped in Bowling Match With Crimson Flatfeet | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...Haven the Vagabond got up from his camp stool on the platform and went into the warm club car. He did not care for New Haven, somehow. He could read a magazine the rest of the way down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

...Chairman of the Chinese People's Soviet Government, a peasant who turned classical scholar, organized the Communist Party in China, and became as well-known to Chinese as Chiang Kai-shek when Chiang Kai-shek put a price of $250,000 on his head. Evenings, perched on a stool inside Mao's solid-stone hut, Snow slowly took down Mao's patiently dictated autobiography. Incorporated into Red Star Over China, it makes a valuable document in its own right. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists in 1927, Mao organized the Soviet in Hunan Province. Despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chinese Reds | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Carved out of black diorite, the statue shows Gudea, an ancient ruler in Southern Babylonia, seated on a stool, clasping his hands over his breast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Semitic Museum Purchases Important Gudean Statue | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...from Fallen, Lawyer Liebowitz has won his jury verdicts outright. The records disclose only one accusation of tampering with justice. In 1932 a county judge in Brooklyn dismissed an indictment based on unsupported testimony of a confessed prostitute that Liebowitz had coached her what to testify against the police stool pigeon, Chile-Acuna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Scottsboro Hero | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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