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Word: tolles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading pages 50 and 51, I want to know what, if any, is the toll on the overseas highway to Key West; what caused the Miami municipal airport fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Russia, where it infected 25,000,000, killed 3,000,000, and made Hindenburg fear to move German troops from his Polish front to his French front. Today few U. S. residents know anything of the disease or of the dirty pink eruptions, high fever, delirium and terrific death toll peculiar to typhus fever.*Half-a-dozen years ago, however, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service, coming out of a hospital, weak, emaciated and quavering, revealed that he had contracted typhus from fleas, a cage of which he had worn for the sake of experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War & Lice | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...semi-finals Harkness is slated to meet Marshall Word, of Oklahoma University, Big Six title-holder. Three other Big Three grapplers who gained the semi-finals were Richard Harding, 126-pound class, Charles Powers, 155, and Charlie Toll, heavy, all of Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARKNESS NEARS PEAK IN COLLEGE WRESTLING | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

...grimly titled "Death Begins at 40." The title referred to the fact that automobile accidents which happen at speeds over 40 m.p.h. are more than twice as likely to be fatal as accidents that happen below that speed. Behind the booklet is last year's record road toll-40,300 dead. Dramatic centrepiece of "Death Begins at 40" is Grant Wood's painting, Death on the Ridge Road, which shows a big red truck about to crash head-on into a black sedan at a hilltop curve. Pages of statistics prove that most fatal accidents occur to experienced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: At 40 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Upset of the meet was Bill Glendinning's victory over Herbert Pickett of Yale, former conqueror of Princeton's Charlie Toll, who has pinned Bill in two minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIS BEAT GRAPPLERS 15-11, AS YARDLINGS TIE | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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