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Word: undo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oppose the chapel is virtually to attempt to undo what the Corporation has already decreed. On the other hand, the vast majority of Harvard men feel strongly opposed to a large chapel in the Yard. Plans are still in the hands of the architect. It is not too late for the Corporation to reconsider its choice of location...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KEEPING FAITH | 3/17/1931 | See Source »

...held at a police station "for investigation, suspected of being wanted by the California authorities." Then he summoned a lawyer, issued a statement: "I never saw Mooney until . . . told by an officer that this was [he]. . . . My testimony in the various cases was untrue and false. I desire to undo the wrong done by me in sending Mooney to prison, regardless of personal consequences." He repeated his story of being kept and entertained by the San Francisco police at a hotel prior to testifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: California's Witness | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...Moulmein Pagoda. A steady drone of power changed suddenly to a stutter of uncertainty, then stopped. Joseph Marie Le Brix and M. Rossi on a flight from Paris to Saigon, Cochin-China, last week, scrambled to undo safety belts, climbed over their cockpit's edge and stepped, parachutes unfolding, into the black darkness over the mountains near Moulmein, Burma. The old Moulmein pagoda heard the shriek of wind against wires as the Frenchmen's plane roared to the ground with no one in control. The plane was demolished, mail was lost, Rossi fractured his pelvic bone, the hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Foolproof? | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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