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Word: territoryes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Pattullo. still immaculate but with a bigger girth, announced exultantly last week that British Columbia had closed a deal with the Dominion Government to take over Yukon Territory. As soon as British Columbia's Legislature signs on the dotted line, that province with an area of 573,331...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Yukon Absorbed | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

The expedition of four men intends to survey for oil the whole of Afghanistan and 180-000, square miles of territory in Iran. The equipment includes a portable bathtub and palm beach suits for evening wear in camp. The region is practically unknown geographically.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buie, Geology Section Man, Leaves on Persian Survey | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

Thirty years ago, when Istanbul was Constantinople, visitors to the city found it as overrun with dogs as Hamelin was with rats. Every small section had its band of ten to 25 mongrels-all sizes, shapes and colors-which woke to fighting fury when a dog from another section tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Istanbul Dogs | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Rugby with Princeton at Princeton this afternoon promises to be one of the best games in the East this season. Called off is the Jayvee or "second fifteen" game scheduled at the same time. And tomorrow the Varsity continues its week-end raid into enemy territory by taking on the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby Team Meets Princeton Today, New York Tomorrow | 5/1/1937 | See Source »

The obvious remedy for this condition would be to go back to the old plan of a full year course in the important phases of art since the Christian era, and to cut the full course in the Greek and Roman art to its half-course ranking. Thus it would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FINE ARTS | 4/27/1937 | See Source »

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