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Word: actes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lungs normally excrete almost a quart of water a day, roughly 1% ounces an hour. Horn playing is not normal breathing, and in two hours' playing time a horn will act as a condenser and easily catch a glassful of water from the lungs, sir, not spit...

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

...morning last week, in the caucus room of the Old House Office Building, there opened a Congressional investigation as suave, sophisticated, polite and cynical as a Somerset Maugham comedy. It was the beginning of the Smith Committee hearings of the Wagner Act-that most crucial piece of New Deal legislation, passed to safeguard labor's historic right to bargain collectively through unions of its own choosing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Labor's Safeguardians | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Committee, which came into being as a result of protests over the refusal by Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, to allow Communist leader Earl Browder to speak at the University will act merely as an advisory body to Mr. Greene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAFEE, SCHELSINGER AND HANFORD ON NEW COMMITTEE | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--The Congress of Industrial Organizations tonight recommended criminal penalties for Wagner Act violators, marking an important change of policy forward the Labor Relations Law and the National Labor Relations Board which administers...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...drag a so-so cast through the script, he has taken the show on his own Napoleonic shoulders and carried it through to Garcia. Along with being able to sing tap-dance play the piano, imitate Roosevelt, and other odd jobs, it might even he said that Rooney can act. His introduction to the problem of smoking a cigar is one of the funniest scenes put on Celluloid in a long time. He is even allowed to go through a tolerable love scene now that the Hays office has found out that the younger generation clinches once or twice before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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