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Word: taining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mentors and officials include Major J. K. Boles, Field Artillery, Team Cap tain; Major J. S. Hatcher, Ordnance, Adjutant; Lieutenant S. R. Hinds, Infantry, Coach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Our Enemy, the Swiss | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

Evidence that Western Samoans have turned envious eyes on their eastern brothers under the administration of U. S. Cap tain Graham in Pagopago was published by a potent spokesman for the Man, the N. Z. Samoa Guardian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Al Smyth | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Iowa's Ernest Horn became wrought up over the inadequacy of the English alphabet to represent sounds accurately, he started calculating-14 sounds for "s," 22 for "long e," 21 for "ir," etc. Variant spellings for "ir" intrigued him: (h) er, (s) ir, (ch) or (ade), (c) er (tain), err, (theat)re (m)yrrh. For lowan reasons were included (n)ear, (hon)or. When he finished with "circumference," he figured 396,000,000 phonetic spellings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. Meeting (Cont.) | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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