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Word: yon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General the Duke of Gloucester, who is Lord Gort's chief liaison officer; also Equerry Piers Legh, Private Secretary Sir Alexander Hardinge, a Scotland Yardsman carrying the royal gas mask and red dispatch case. Lord Gort spent the next few days arduously escorting his sovereign house guest hither & yon through the lines for His Majesty's quick edification and for the pepping-up, which was real and welcome, of His Majesty's armed forces. It was planned that every Tommy should get at least a glimpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Visitors | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

John Kieran of the New York Times: "This looks like a big battle. Horace, was a soldier at one time . . . he enlisted with Brutus and "Yon Cassius" and that army lost by a couple of touchdowns at Phillippi. Mark Antony kicked all the points after touchdowns. In fear and trembling, one hesitant vote for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five of the Quaker Stars for Today's Game | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...explained, was to carry him beyond gravitational pull, whence he could glide the rest of the way). He took off again, headed north over a fog-blanketed Atlantic. By the time Owner Walz had raised the alarm for his $2,600, uninsured monoplane, Cheston Lee Eshleman was skittering hither & yon, munching chocolate, trying to find a hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip to Mars | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...actual fighting in Europe last week. Meanwhile the U. S. people continued the process of making up their collective mind about War (how to provide against its coming) and Peace (how to preserve it). The process consisted, as it must in a democracy, of sound-offs hither & yon, pro & con. Most notable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Reason & Emotion | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...other selections that will be given by the combined chorus are "Down in Yon Forest," and "Sing We Noel," arrangements of two old English carols. Selections from the choral works of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Praetorius will feature the rest of the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RABBIT GLEE CLUB TO RENDER JOINT CONCERT | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

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