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Word: walks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy wooden posts, and in this were elaborately contrived gates, with special provision for defence. At some time the inhabitants apparently decided they needed more room and so they uprooted their stockade and moved it further down the hill. The lower one seems to have had a raised walk on the inner side, so that the defenders could see and fight over the wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joint Harvard-Pennsylvania Bohemian Expedition Reports Finds---Habits of Europeans 4000 Years Ago are Described | 6/11/1931 | See Source »

...friends, although a representative Boston audience looks on with good-natured indulgence. Of course, the third act reveals that the news of the legacy was false, and the inflated pair eat humble pie with obvious relish. There was also a colored maid whose paraphernalia consisted of a grotesque walk, and an inadvertent un-negroid voice. This young lady was a friend of the advertisers in the programme...

Author: By B. Oc, | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/3/1931 | See Source »

...present in a social capacity for the Monday "at homes." In the evening Mrs. Holmes would sometimes read to her husband while he played solitaire. Now it is the Young Fellow who reads. When Justice Holmes was stronger there was daily at 5 p. m. a 40-minute walk, Young Fellow and tall, fine old jurist flourishing his Irish blackthorn stick, talking of all things, drawing out his young protegee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Young Fellows | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...seen. He lives right across from the old Indian village of Taral which has been battered down. It is about 4 or 5 miles down the track from Chitina, which is M. 131. The R. R. boys have very frequently seen him get his mail because he has to walk across the ice to the Railroad side of the river to get to his mail box. When he did not get his mail at Christmas they surely expected him to get it at New Years anyway. When the New Years past and still he had not come, they began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...Gold Coast 'Juniors' will render "Would You Like to Take a Walk?", and "Alexander's Rag Time Band." Following a novel feature. "The Pyorrhean Sorority," the Vocal Club will reappear to sing "Heidelberg" and "Australia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1934 INSTRUMENTALISTS TO GIVE CONCERT IN CAMBRIDGE | 5/16/1931 | See Source »

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