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Word: strokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strong Men. England's biggest fear is that London will be crippled by a sudden stroke from the sky. Recently Londoners have taken to rushing to their windows whenever airplanes drone overhead, as they used to when planes were a novelty. In Nos. 10 and 11 Downing Street and in Whitehall, this psychosis has taken the form of a question: Who will govern Britain if we are blown to Blarney? The Government's first answer to it was to divide all Britain into twelve administrative sections,* each of which would operate as an independent country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: If Necessary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...tried to leave the New Lecture Hall after Professor Michael Karpovich's lecture on Italy. Some prankster, suspected to be of Freshman origin, had passed shackles through the handles of the Building's great oaken doors during the 9 o'clock session, thus virtually imprisoning 400 men at a stroke. After the first panic several bulky upperclassmen broke the portals to kindling-wood, and the assembly surged through the splinters to freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOORS CHAINED AT HISTORY I. LECTURE: DOORS THEN BROKEN | 4/27/1939 | See Source »

...Stroke, Bailey; seven, Turner; six, Pierce; five, Gifford; four, Hazard; three, Crocker; two, Koeniger, bow, Gilkey; and Coxswain, Phippen...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Varsity Oarsmen Outclass Rutgers, Tech, B.U.; Batsmen Take Third Straight Victory at Penn | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Stroke, Pennoyer; seven, Bacon; six, Whitman; five, Marshall; four, Villa; three, Herter; two, Erskine; bow, Everett; and Coxswain, Ducey

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Varsity Oarsmen Outclass Rutgers, Tech, B.U.; Batsmen Take Third Straight Victory at Penn | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Stroke, Wilson; seven, Hinckley; six, Taylor; five, Kingman; four, Reed, three, Moffat; two, Hovey; bow, Ninde; and Coxswain...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Varsity Oarsmen Outclass Rutgers, Tech, B.U.; Batsmen Take Third Straight Victory at Penn | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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