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Word: b (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HOWARD B. POTTS Byesville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...authorities made frantic efforts to keep evacuated children from returning to town for Christmas, and literary bigwigs wrote persuasively in the press. "This Christmas, coming as it does in the rummiest war the world has ever known, will be a test of our common sense," wrote Novelist J. B. Priestly. "We are fighting bewildered, angry, hysterical men, who at any moment may bark out orders to rain death and destruction on this country. . . . Therefore, let the children stay [in the country]. . . . It is better to spend one Christmas Eve longing for them than to spend a thousand evenings of dreadful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Thermopylae, a Greek beach with a cliff on one side and the sea on the other, was held by Spartan King Leonidas' Army of 300 in 480 B. C. against Xerxes' large Persian forces. Valmy in Northeastern France, was held by French Revolutionary Armies in 1792 against the Duke of Brunswick's German forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: No Box Office | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Governor Eurith D. Rivers proclaimed a Statewide holiday, prepared to call out the National Guard. Atlanta's Mayor William B. Hartsfield proclaimed a three-day festival. To Georgia it was like winning the battle of Atlanta 75 years late, with Yankee good will thrown in and the direct assistance of Selznick International (which made the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

SQUASH League A WonLost Eliot 12 3 Lowell 13 7 Adams 11 9 Kirkland 7 8 Leverett 8 12 Dunster 6 9 Winthrop 3 12 League B Won Lost Eliot 11 4 Lowell 9 6 Kirkland 9 6 Leverett 8 7 Adams 10 10 Winthrop 10 10 Dunster 3 17 League C Won Lost Leverett 15 5 Lowell 13 7 Dudley 11 8 Winthrop 11 9 Kirkland 10 10 Eliot 3 12 Dunster 7 13 Adams 5 15 League D Won Lost Lowell 11 4 Kirkland 9 6 Leverett 9 6 Eliot 8 7 Winthrop 10 10 Dunster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inter-House Sports Standing | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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