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Word: according (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calmly announced: "I am a problem child. I must not be excited." After a few weeks of training the banker could get through his financial pages, the engineer could read 550 words a minute of general literature, a secretary who had never read a book of her own accord had read four, including Gone With the Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: First R | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...came to the studio tonight prepared with a speech in support of Surgeon General Parran of the United States Public Health Service in his crusade against social diseases. A few minutes before I was to go on the air, I was informed that the discussion was not in accord with the policies of the National Broadcasting Co. Thank you, and good night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Proper Phraseology | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...opined: "I should have no doubt myself that the President's offer is sincere. For while he and certain of his supporters might feel at a loss during election time if they did not have the utilities for a scapegoat, Mr. Roosevelt's offer is in entire accord with his most practical political necessities. Thus, although he does not need political peace with the utilities, he very urgently needs an economic peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Economic Peace | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Music 1 is to impoverish the whole field. This, in effect, is the University's policy, which extends an evil instead of eradicating it. With a few years of support and expansion, there is every reason to believe that Music like any other field could of its own accord blossom forth and bear fruit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEPRESSING MUSIC | 11/17/1937 | See Source »

...these low accusations. Go right ahead." Trying to obey, Efficiency Expert Bedaux encountered more obstacles. Said he the next afternoon: "Up to 1 o'clock I was very gay. Since then something has happened. . . ." Whether or not the something was a refusal by the State Department to accord royal status to the Duchess of Windsor, Efficiency Expert Bedaux would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Mr. Bedaux's Friends | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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