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Word: summer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When scandal broke its levees in Louisiana last summer, began to rise pocket-deep around public hirelings high & low, a cynical citizenry waited to see what would happen to Huey Long's topmost heirs: ex-Governor Richard Webster Leche. New Orleans' Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, New Orleans Hotelman Seymour Weiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: One Down | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...been under construction for three years and at one time last spring half a million laborers worked on it 20 hours a day. "The world's cannon and artillery cannot break through it," boasted the German high command as it was being rushed toward completion this summer. But in principle the new Siegfried Stellung is just a three-ring version of Colonel Lossberg's old zonal defense system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Defense in Depth | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...style dazzle drapes showed up distinctly. The solid green and chocolate drapes could not be seen at 5,000 feet, could not be photographed at 10,000 feet. Result: from now on, well dressed U. S. Army trucks, tanks, big guns will carry solid green drapes for summer wartime wear, solid brown drapes for autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Camouflage | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Chamberlain said last summer: "Can we look forward to the future with any confidence? ... I think I should advise you to go and consult Old Moore, because he is quite as likely to be right as I am." Old Moore's Almanack has appeared every year since 1697. Only the author and publishers know who Old Moore is today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: People's Augurs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Speakers Committee has charge of distributing volunteer speakers on various matters of interest. The Library Committee has charge of the special loan books. With its activities concentrated in the summer for the most part, the Missions Committee has charge of sending students to Labrador. Then there are also the Handbook Committee and the Information Committee, always ready to answer any questions about the University and about the surrounding towns

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE STARTS YEAR WITH OPEN HOUSE | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

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