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Word: archness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mooney and of Sacco & Vanzetti, by the Senate would have meant a sizable fight. Last week Tom Mooney walked out of jail, and it seemed that Felix Frankfurter would step as easily into the Supreme Court. Felix Frankfurter had become so relatively inoffensive that last September the arch-conservative legal profession, Gallup-polled, gave him five times as many votes for the Court as any other candidate. As a Senate subcommittee got busy to consider whether Felix Frankfurter should be called Associate Justice, busy Professor Frankfurter declined an invitation to appear in person, deputized his friend Dean Acheson to represent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: A Place for Poppa | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Internationally famed as an arch foe of Fascism, Gaetano Salvemini, who is to lecture on Medieval Italian History here next term, declared in an interview yesterday that Germany holds the key position in the Italo-French dispute over Tunis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: If Reich Stays Out, French Will Keep Tunis, Gaetano Salvemini Declares | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

...toughest tunnel, under the San Jacinto mountains, the engineers ran into inflows of ground water up to 15,800 gallons per minute. According to the superintendent on this job, "water pressures as high as 600 lb. per sq. in. caved in headings or brought down the arch; water had to be pumped out against an 800-ft. head through a shaft that was flooded repeatedly while the work was under contract. . . . Repeated relocation of portions of the tunnel were necessary." When the engineers finally holed through San Jacinto tunnel, they were calling it, with commingled irritation and pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waterboys | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

After six days of exciting chases, during which more than 25 foxes were run to cover, the judges named Jack Trouble, owned by Finley & Douglas of York, S. C., winner of the Chase Futurity, picked Hawkeye Stacey, owned by Arch Stacey of Jackson, Ky., as winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foxhunters | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

With few notable exceptions (Senators Wagner in New York, Downey in California, Bone in Washington), arch-New Deal Democrats were defeated. Democrats such as Governor Lehman of New York and Senator Clark of Missouri, both of whom differed with the President on the Supreme Court, as well as those like Senator Tydings of Maryland whom the President tried to purge, were conspicuous among the survivors-a triumph for the old-fashioned politics of Postmaster Farley over the politics of the White House Janizariat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Grand Sashay | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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