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Word: adamson (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hubert H. Nexon, of Brookline; Robert DeM. Price, of Willoughby, Ohio; Marx Leva, of Selma, Alabama; Louis Henkin, of New York; Arthur L. Adamson 2d., of Garden City, New York; Bennett Frankel, of Great Neck, Long Island; Charles S. Geier, of Boston; Herbert H. Gorson, of Atlantic City, New Jersey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seventeen First Year Law Students Win Scholarships | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

...atmosphere and lighting in Widener is not unlike that of a tomb. If some improvements such as those suggested above were introduced, the room might attract more readers. In any event the changes would make studying more pleasant for those who have to use the reading room. Robert Adamson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/16/1937 | See Source »

...Stella H. Adamson was driving Dr. May E. Walker to the cottages which they jointly owned and rented at Lake Tahoe, Calif. Mrs. Adamson's rear tire treads were worn smooth. The pavements were wet. Suddenly the car skidded, slid, spun around, knocked down a telephone pole, ripped out 15 ft. of wire fence and came to a sickening stop in the ditch. Dr. Walker was hurled from her seat with such force that she was jammed jackknife fashion 25 in. through a 15-in. opening in the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Guests & Passengers | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Like California, many U. S. States permit a paying passenger to recover for auto injuries caused by a driver's negligence, but limit non-paying passenger or guest recoveries to cases where the driver was grossly negligent or drunk. In both Walker v. Adamson and McCann v. Hoffman et al, the injured passengers had shared or were expected to share in the expenses of the trip. But, said California's Supreme Court, where the parties are ''engaged on a business venture for their mutual advantage," then sharing expenses makes a guest a paying passenger; whereas, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Guests & Passengers | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...failure as a chorus girl, retaliates by hiring him to put on a show in her skyscraper night club. The pyramid is the irrelevantly impressive edifice of songs, dances and specialty acts supporting this picayune and wrinkled anecdote. On a broad base of music by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, Universal's first splurge in musicomedy since its reorganization superimposes tap dancing by George Murphy, who apes Fred Astaire, and by eleven-year-old Peggy Ryan, who apes Eleanor Powell; singing by Gertrude Niesen, imported from radio; clowning by The Three Sailors, imported from vaudeville; Scotch dialect by Ella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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