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Word: tome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in Portugal's history its ruler last week visited her overseas empire. After calls at the tiny, off-Africa islands of Principe and Sao Tome, a steamer carrying Portuguese President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona steamed into the harbor of Loanda, largest city in Portugal's West African colony of Angola. But to the population of Angola the big news last week was not the official visit but the more important fact that in Lisbon tight-fisted Premier and Finance Minister Dr. Antonio Oliveira Salazar had finally loosened up and granted the neglected colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Cinderella Colony | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Freshman baseball team has not had an outstanding season this spring having lost ten games to the three they won. They started out by downing Tome by the tune of 15-5, but they weakened after having been defeated by the B. U. Freshman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Nine Meets Elis At New Haven This Saturday | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

...date the Freshmen have won five and lost one, beating Tome, Gilman, Huntington, Thayer, before yesterday's game and bowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAWRENCE NINE BOWS TO YARDLING BATTERS | 4/21/1938 | See Source »

Riddled by injuries, the Freshman nine will journey to Riverside field this afternoon to met the Boston University Freshman. Coach Samborski will call on Jack Schwede, who set down Tome School 15-5 on the Spring trip, to pitch. Mel Gordon will replace the injured Hartstone and Dago Avergun will probably start in place of Lovett, also on the sick list. The game is called for 3:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 4/13/1938 | See Source »

...drink it, was a European favorite by the time of the French Revolution. Then the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp was destroyed, the monks dispersed, the secret of Elixir apparently lost forever. In 1863, however, Monsieur Alexander Le Grand of Fécamp chanced on an ancient tome in which Dom Vincelli's formula had been scribbled. The Le Grand family promptly began making Elixir again and now it is a world-wide favorite under the name Benedictine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Line | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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