Word: suburban
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was one night when a socially prominent undergraduate had drowned his carefreeness with much potent liquid and was speeding merrily, if not somewhat like a May Pole dance along a suburban turnpike. Unluckily an innocent automobile blocked his way; he did not hit it hard, but hard enough to excite the driver, arouse hot words, and attract a state policeman who was parked nearby...
...years of rigorous, one-man editing of the Satevepost George Horace Lorimer was tired when he resigned Jan. 1. Said he quietly: "I should like to live a more leisurely life and put into effect some long deferred plans." Last week at his home in Philadelphia's suburban, wooded Wyncote, death overtook the 69-year-old editor in his quest for leisure. He had been ill with pneumonia a week...
...weeks of possible fighting weather left before operations must cease for the long winter's siege. Since the Rightists cut the direct rail route from Valencia just a few miles outside Madrid, communication with the coast has been by road or by rail and then truck in from suburban Alcala de Henares. This route is now being made the course of a new railroad and the line from Madrid northeast to Huesca is being extended southeast to Utise for another rail connection to Valencia...
...salesman named James Burns, gave her. Her mother, Mrs. Peter Miley, whose second husband, like her first, is a structural iron worker, had kept a meticulous diary of her daughter's 2,096 days in bed. The doctor in the case, Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut, a closemouthed, popular suburban doctor, counted on being asked to publish a sequel to the clinical record he has kept of the young woman's stupor (TIME, April...
...Stalin, as becomes the Biggest Shot, travels between his Kremlin office and suburban home over streets and roads on which 24 hours per day no car is permitted to park or make a U-turn, not even in the country after Moscow has been left behind. The Dictator's motorcade consists always of three cars, generally enclosed 12-cylinder Hispano-Suizas. These cost in France, where they are made, as high as 250,000 francs ($7,700) for each chassis alone, rank among Europe's fastest cars. In Stalin's case, the tonneau windows of the three...