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Word: walks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 24 hours Carl Miller put Bryan Untiedt, 13, the oldest boy in the bus, in charge. "Don't let anyone go to sleep," he said, and plunged out to walk for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: School Bus | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...unfortunate that Mr. Garrett may still have to endure a third unsuccessful trial. But, together with the vindication of the jury system by the present dismissal, comes the pleasant realization that he may once more walk a free man, among free men in the Ritz Rathskeller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOL'S DAY | 4/1/1931 | See Source »

...interruption of her walk may make her decide to go to some performance other than the one she predicted. Her future is uncertain. Nor does she know whence she came. The crowd pushed her willy-nilly until she encountered Mr. Observer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Past As Uncertain As Future | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...squeezing through the model of a keyhole, 6½ in. wide, 12½ in. long. Nimble Mr. Brawermann then tore the strings out of a tennis racquet, climbed through the frame. Next he took off his shirt, lay on a bed of 1,200 spikes, permitted people to walk over him. When he got up his skin was unbroken. Five feet five inches tall, weighing 150 lb., Mr. Brawermann said that he had never been on the stage, had just picked up his tricks by practicing 15 min. a day. Explained he: "It gives me a good appetite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Keyholer | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

During this autobiographical walk around Manhattan one ex-friend after another met Lawrence and offered him friendly help. To cap all, the girl showed him a flourishing bookshop, offered him the job of running it. Then they were mysteriously separated and Lawrence woke up in his room. When he called her apartment he found she had died the day before; but everything else had really happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Preferred | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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