Search Details

Word: thorns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Last week, speaking to 600 officers of the Fascist militia, Secretary Turati snorted: "The whole world is against us. We are against the whole world because we are antidemocrats, anti-Liberals, anti-Socialists. Fascismo is a thorn in Europe's eye, a hard blow in her back, an army which obeys, fights, dies and does not argue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Thorn in Europe's Eye | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...fell here. Freddy Guest's Koko fell into the ditch head first and Amber-wave, one of the favorites, fell after him. The rest were all closely bunched with Billy Barton, Darracq and Bright's Boy out in front. The eighth jump is the Canal Turn, a thorn fence five feet nine inches high with a six-foot ditch on the take-off side and an 18-inch guard rail in front of the ditch. Eighteen horses fell as if a machine gun had been playing on the top of the fence. Horses without riders galloped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand National | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Thorn McAn has been robbed 252 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Believe It or Not | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...take the oath of allegiance to the Republic;* 3) The Roman Catholic Nuncio at Prague to be hereafter excused when the Diplomatic Corps and the Government of Czechoslovakia participate each year in the great national festival honoring the late, famed, fiery Protestant John Huss, national hero of Czechoslovaks,-and thorn in the Papal side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Rendering unto Prague | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Cardozo--Bleiweiss, Isaacs v. Sargent--Rusbason, Thorn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Publish List of Debaters in First Year Law Club Debates | 1/7/1928 | See Source »

Previous | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | Next