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Word: wideness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed 105, Rudolph turned to a friend, muttered imperturbably: "He's one ahead of me." From that point on he stared at the Scoreboard instead of the table. As Ponzi retired to his corner, nervously wiping his hands and sucking his finger, Rudolph wrent to work. Legs spread wide, toes turned in. he started a run. After reaching 123, only the 7 and n balls were left on the table. Click for one-click for the other-which gave Rudolph the 125 necessary to win game and world's championship. More astonishing than Rudolph's victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...made to wolf a fat goose in a restaurant scene, while at the next table a lean Nazi couple divided a herring. These features of the original film caused cool heads in the Nazi hierarchy to fear that, if released throughout Germany, it would incite a nation-wide pogrom. Besides, who was young Horst Wessel anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Music by Hanfstaengl | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...frantic parents the train's engineer gibbered that he had had his bell clanging, his whistle wide open, that he had not seen the bus until it had turned sharply almost under the locomotive wheels. Lying cut and bruised on a cot in a Baptist parsonage, old D. R. Niles hoped that he, too, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School Bus | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

Last week-end Gene Vidal flew to Manhattan to eat wild duck with his friends George Palmer Putnam and Paul Collins. As usual he carried no baggage except a toothbrush and shirt in his pocket. He never wears an undershirt. His hat, a floppy, wide-brimmed Borsalino, bears inside the legend: "The Latch-String Always Hangs Outside,' Amon G. Carter, Shady Oaks Farm, Fort Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Lindberghs | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...improved. For the first time in many years the number of unemployed has not increased but, instead decreased in the months of October and November. The general business conditions accordingly have become distinctly more hopeful, though, of course, a final recovery is possible only in coincidence with that world-wide economic improvement for which we all hope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German Representative Denies That Adolf Hitler Will Break Peace Treaty | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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