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Word: woodenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty-five miles away at Siemens-stadt technicians of the German Siemens & Halske electric trust were testing the world's loudest loudspeaker. Its powerful diaphragm can make as much music as a 2,000-piece symphony orchestra, as much noise as 500 lusty German kitchen wenches pounding with wooden spoons on tin dishpans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Bertha | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...WOODEN SWORDS?Jacques Deval, translated by Lawrence S. Morris?Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wartime Chaplinesque | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...Seattle, Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Burns delayed their honeymoon while police searched for the thief who stole the bridegroom's wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 14, 1930 | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...With bowed heads nobles and peasants stood in the ancient chapel of Castle Skokloster while Archbishop Söderblom of Stockholm read the funeral service. Came a pause. Then up to the coffin strode Sweden's brawny Master of Heraldry. With a dramatic gesture he seized the ancient black-winged wooden escutcheon of the Brahe family, broke it in two across the coffin as a sign that no Swede will ever bear those arms again. Last to leave the crypt was Archbishop Söderblom. He locked for the last time the ancient iron doors on the last of the Brahes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Last of the Brakes | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...Lady Astor, using a steel-shafted driver, a brassie, and a wooden putter: a match with Lord Wharncliffe from whom she received eleven strokes handicap, in the Parliamentary golf handicap at Deal, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Jun. 2, 1930 | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

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