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Word: triede (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warden William ("Bill") Mills, one-time footballer for Temple University, onetime superintendent (1920-33) of Philadelphia's none too savory police force, denied all knowledge of how it could have happened. He declared he had been out for a jog in the woods the morning the bodies were found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Parboiled Prisoners | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Last week Toronto officials tried to get all this relief money back from the four mothers, fecund winners of Toronto's famed "Stork Derby" which paid out $425,000 (TIME, June 13). The day they got their prize money the mothers spontaneously chorused: "We will repay every cent of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Matriarchal Relief | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

When he tried to help an angler pull in a 400-lb. tuna while boating off Elsinore, Prince Axel of Denmark, who once rescued a Swedish cinemactress from drowning, was dragged into the water. Into his boat the angler safely pulled both fish and Prince.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Three days later, Captain Eyston tried again, succeeded in breaking his old record officially with an average speed of 345.49 m.p.h. First to congratulate him was his rival, Fur Broker John Cobb, another 200-lb. Briton, who was on the sidelines last week-waiting for his inning. John Cobb'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Land Mark | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Every Sunday night ten senders sat in a secluded room in Chicago's Merchandise Mart, concentrated gravely on cards and vegetables selected by a roulette wheel. Radio listeners tried to pickup the senders' thought waves, record the wheel's selections. In response to $600 worth of concentrating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Patterns and Peephole | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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