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Word: thornes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fell in love with her, confessed his literary ambitions and showed her the outline of a novel he was going to write. He had taken a correspondence course in finger printing, but had changed his mind about being a detective. Johnny paid her a heartfelt compliment, called her "a thorn rose, growin' along with the weeds. If it grows by the road, it gits kinda coal-dusty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magna Cum Laude | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

While the atmosphere of the Reichstag trial is saturated with undentable tragedy, it has had its lighter moments. Some of these have been furnished by Georg Dimitroff, the Bulgarian Communist who is both defendant and lawyer in his own defence. Dimitroff has been a thorn in the red-robed sides of the presiding judges because of his unfortunate custom of interposing questions to the witnesses and assailing the peculiar methods of the court. On several occasions, after he had taken over the procedure and cross-examined Nazis into embarassing admissions, the session was hurriedly adjourned to prevent more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/13/1933 | See Source »

...shell left in my double-barreled gun, and shot at his head. Klein and Pete shot at the same time. I was off my balance. . . . My foot caught as I stepped back from the kick of the gun, and down I fell on my back in the thorn bushes. Now, two things happened as I fell: First, I saw the bull go down, and secondly I knocked your mother down, too. We were lying flat on our backs in the thorns. Klein yelled to run. Pete shot again. Isaiah and a Somali guide had disappeared over the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Deer on a Ledge (Cont'd) | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...Pittman, Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, returning last week from the London Conference. "If the United States should intervene I think other nations would understand." After conferring with the President, Senator Pittman amended: "I expect our warships back soon. The Monroe Doctrine is a thorn in the side of South American nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Loot The Palace! | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

Another main difficulty is the fact that beer cannot be dispensed to persons under twenty-one. While the restaurants in Harvard Square and other locations are not troubled by this provision of the law. it is said that it may prove an insistent thorn in the side of the University, because of the great number of minors concentrated within these walls. Officials and others will use the certainty that the young are to be exposed to the evil influence as an argument against the introduction of the golden fluid. The obvious asininity of such arguments and of the clause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREAT EXPECTATIONS | 6/2/1933 | See Source »

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