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Word: wilsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When her father left one day to visit his tobacco farm, Lulu Belle slipped Jim the keys. He let out his pal, Bill ("Bad Eye") Wilson. They grabbed Jailer Kimel's gun from his office, commandeered a taxi, bound and gagged the driver, Wilkes Swing, and drove to Godwin's home in High Point for clothes and another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lulu Belle's Beau | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

While she was being sentenced to 60 days, word came that a posse had got Jim Godwin. Hefty, heartbroken Lulu Belle wept again. That report was false, but after Bill Wilson lost his nerve, sneaked away and squealed, they did get Godwin, subdued him with a load of bird shot in the face. He still swore he had planned to come back for Lulu Belle and go straight -after he had robbed enough gas stations. Lulu Belle, out on $200 bail and hiding her fat red face at home, didn't believe him this time. She had found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lulu Belle's Beau | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Edwin Powell Hubble of Mt. Wilson Observatory has detected nebulae 500,000,000 light-years away, but only up to half that distance have satisfactory spectra been obtained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Image-Slicer | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...problem of using light for spectra more efficiently has goaded skygazers for years. Astronomers at Mt. Wilson and California Institute of Technology were putting their money last week on a device called an "image-slicer," invented by Caltech's quiet, brilliant Ira Sprague Bowen. No bigger than a child's fist, this gadget splits up the blobby image of a star or nebula into a number of thin strips by means of a combination of mirrors which feed each one of the strips through the one-thousandth-inch spectroscope slit. After passing through, these slices of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Image-Slicer | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

HARVARDWEST POINT Capt. Green (171) l.e. r.e., Sullivan (180) Healey (198) J.t. r.t., Lotozo (200) Mellen (175) l.g. r.g., Little (175) Russell (192) c. c., Gillis (185) Glueck (180) r.g. l.g., Engstrom (180) Booth (194) r.t. l.t., Stella (210) Daughters (181) r.e. l.e., Yeager (190) Wilson (185) q.b. q.b., Schwenk (185) Foley (160) l.h.b. r.h.b., Long (180) Macdonald (178) r.h.b. l.h.b., Wilson (175) Smith (188) f.b. f.b., Frontczak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LINEUPS | 10/15/1938 | See Source »

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