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Word: trainloads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dalai Lama will be shut up in a monastery and the country will be governed by a Regency. Nobody knew for certain who was pulling the strings that ran the Regency, but China's chances might be better. In August the Panchen Lama set out with a special trainload of food provisions and cash for Inner Mongolia where his Holiness could be within striking distance of Tibet, should the Faithful still desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: General Huang's News | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...sheer adversity entitles an actor to the title of trouper, Hugh O'Connell is a trouper of the Eagle Scout class. As a child he was sent West from New York with a trainload of other orphans. It was O'Connell's good fortune to be adopted by an affectionate couple in Kaukauna, Wis. His foster mother was as stage-struck as he, and when he had not earned his way into the Opera House by sticking up posters for a touring troupe, she usually could lay hands on a half-dollar to buy them both gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...York City, by the shining big sea water, . . . Not the poem "Hiawatha" gave the rhythm of that item Yes, I know Longfellow used it, but not so in "Hiawatha" Couched in "Hiawatha's" meter, this is how you'd read that statement Bottles bought they by the trainload, but the kegs they did not order HAROLD POPPE Forest Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1933 | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...When U. S. brewers were dusting off their plants for beer's return, they were convinced that draught beer would be banned. Bottles they bought by the trainload, but kegs they neglected to order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1933 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...Bottles they bought by the trainload, but kegs they neglected to order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1933 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

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