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Word: dreading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anything, to bring disgrace upon himself or the historic Prohibition Party. But some members of the party, believing that Nominee Varney could not possibly be elected, were for surrendering the party as an independent political unit and handing over its entire vote to Hooverism, the Dry defender against the dread and dripping Brown Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men of Principle | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Clang! Clang!-an ambulance rushed through Moscow, turned with a lurch into the Boulevard Lubianka, and pulled up before the most dread address in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bombs & Executions | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Leaping from their seats two white clad internes picked up a stretcher and rushed into the Bureau of the Union State Political Department, notorious as the "Cheka" or O. G. P. U., the dread police-spy service of the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bombs & Executions | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...Huenefeld, trans-Atlantic flyer, has often written poems and essays, most of which remain unpublished. Having completed his flight to the U. S. he wrote no autobiography but a play which will be produced at the end of this month, in Dresden. The play's name is Dread of Good Luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...Group" or "Mensheviki" of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The "Larger Group" or "Bolsheviki" have long since obliterated their rivals, now constitute the Communist Party, and are the political masters of Russia. As a mere Menshevik, the Chief Justice is notably deferential to the potent Soviet Prosecutor. He, the dread Nikolai Vassilievich Krylenko, onetime Commander of the Red Army, plays both hero and villain in the Shahkta Trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Shahkta | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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