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Word: c (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kingstree, S. C., Farmer H. R. Morris found a lost cow which had swished its tail around a tree, knotted itself fast, slowly starved to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 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 »

...Other inmates: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Napoleon Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Grover C. Alexander, Connie Mack, Ban Johnson, John J. McGraw, Morgan Bulk.eley, George Wright, Alexander Cartwright, Henry Chadwick, Cap Anson, A. G. Spalding, Charles Radbourne, Arthur Cummings, Charles Comiskey, Buck Ewing, Eddie Collins, Wee Willie Keeler, George Sisler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Immortal Gehrig | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...have ever known." Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier spend most of their time together, are seldom seen at Hollywood night clubs, both like reading (she prefers biographies, thought David Cecil': The Young Melbourne "wonderfully good"). Olivier sings a few songs that Vivien Leigh knows how to pick out c i the piano. In their repertory: The Melody in F, Banjo on My Knee, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean...

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

...Washington, D. C., Lloyd S. Booze was indicted on a charge of holding up the liquor store of a man named Seltzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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