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Word: swans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Nicaragua roared two U. S. Marine planes carrying medical relief. They had a hard time landing in the rubble. Out of Colon sped the U. S. cruiser Rochester. The gunboat Sacramento set out at once from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, and the minesweeper Swan steamed up from Trujillo, Honduras, with food, water, bandages. Out of Kingston, Jamaica, raced H. M. S. Danae to help her own people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH HONDURAS: What Spiders Know | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Swan, playing golf for the first time in his life & with rented clubs made a hole-in-one at Vancouver, B. C., by bunting his ball 117 yd. with a driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

Divers. When Georgia Coleman executes a swan-dive, front or back jackknife, gainer ("flying dutchman"), back-flip or somersault, she does it more efficiently than any other female in the civilized world. So fluent, so sure are her motions in the air that spectators would not be surprised if, as newsreels often show her doing, she paused in mid-air and returned to the springboard. In the high platform championships last week, her execution of a running one-&-a-half forward somersault (see cut) caused judges to prefer her performance to that of plump Frances Meany, whose sister Helen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swimmers | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...Rutherford 1Ed, of Tarentum, Pennsylvania; Phi Delta Kappa Scholarship, Roy Arthur Price 1Ed, of Chicago, Illinois; and six Faculty Scholarships--Eugene Burns GEd, of Los Angeles, California; Raven Orwell Dodge 1Ed, of Lowell; Roy Arthur Price 1Ed., of Chicago, Illinois; John Watson Murray Rothney 2Ed, of Fairhaven; Herbert Lewis Swan, Jr. 1Ed., of Winthrop; and Howard Carleton Seymour 2Ed., of Watertown, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 72 SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED BY VOTE OF CORPORATION | 6/9/1931 | See Source »

...following program under the direction of Arthur Fiedler will be presented at the Pops tonight beginning at 8.30 o'clock. 1. Sambre et Heuse March Ganne 2. Euryanthe Overture Weber 3. H. Symphony, allegretto schetzando Beethoven 4. Swan Lake, Suite Intermission Tchaikowsky 5. Pacific 2-3-1, Symphonic movement Honegger 6. Valse Triste Sibelius 7. First Hungarian Rhapsody Intermission Liszt 8. Roses from the South, waltz Strauss 9. Humoresque Dvorak 10. Aragonaise, from the "Cid" Massenet

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONEGGER'S PACIFIC 2-3-1 FEATURES POPS TONIGHT | 5/28/1931 | See Source »

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