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Word: suburban (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday in suburban Inglewood, a few miles from Los Angeles. Little Jeanette Stephens, 8, Melba Everett, 9, and Madeline Everett, 7, started off with sandwiches for a picnic in the park as countless children in countless cities have done on countless Saturdays. As afternoon wore on and they did not return, their mothers grew uneasy. When suppertime had come and gone, Mrs. Stephens sent her little boy Garth, 7, to the park to look for them. An hour later the parents called the police. Shortly after midnight a community search was on and the disappearance of the three little girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Three Little Girls | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...Madrid last week the Leftists let alone the suburban Medical Clinic building held by Rightists under which early in the week they exploded bombs claimed to have killed 750. "There is no need to take the ruins," explained one of Madrid General Jose Miaja's staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Again, Kleber | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...wife and daughter. In 1926 they realized $3,000,000 by selling out to a banking group. President then and chairman now is a blue-eyed, bulb-nosed Iowa Scot named Walter Kenneth Mclntosh who has been in the company since 1902. Married but childless, he commutes from suburban Oak Park, draws a salary of $27,000. '"Liquid" employes call him "Mr. Mac." Under Mr. Mac, "Liquid" came through Depression with flying colors, lost money only in 1932. In 1930, it made $1,786,000 on sales of $13,626,000. Last year it made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Soda Water Split | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Such was the position of wealthy Mrs. Juliet Tuttle, 65, after the deaths of three popular dogs of suburban Eastchester, N. Y. last month (TIME. May 31). But at her trial last week, other evidence darkened the picture. Found near the spot where she had approached the dogs was a capsule which had contained cyanide of potassium. A former chauffeur of hers testified he had resigned "in disgust" because she used to have him stop the car while she got out to give capsules to stray cats. When the cats keeled over she would deliver them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Kind Killer | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Rockettes reach Paris June 25, will put up in suburban St. Cloud. Twelve Frenchwomen, hand-picked by Exposition authorities, will look after the Rockettes during their two-week stay to help keep their discipline and deportment up to its high U. S. standard. For their official appearance, the Rockettes will dance four of their most famous routines in 16 minutes: Military March, in which 72 legs operate as synchronously as two; a buck & wing number; Midshipmen, a fast, stylized version of Annapolis drills; Beguine, a sultry, rumba-ish performance for which the girls make up like mulattoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rockettes to Paris | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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