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Word: bane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Clifford Bane is 46, married, has one son and a shoe business in Washington, D. C. Until last week, when he enplaned (see p. 16) on an Eastern Airliner for the 80-minute trip from Newark to Washington, he had never been in an airplane before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: First Flight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...most guests Author Marlowe shows astonishing tolerance. (After a charity ball in London, which kept him on his feet 19 hours at a halfpenny an hour, he could still spare a sympathetic thought for the hangovers in store for the revelers.) Main bane of waiters, says Marlowe, is tipping. On this practice he lays most of the blame for the miserable working conditions of the profession generally. Do waiters judge a man's character by the size of his tip? Says Waiter Marlowe: They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waiter | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Awards totalling $10,800 were announced over the weekend at the Law School, Medical School, and School of Education for 1937-38. Law School Faculty Scholarship will go to Paul W. Lukenheimer, of Philadelphia, while four Chicagoans, Charles A. Bane, Raoul Berger, Maxwell Cohen, and Bernard Meltzer and B. Palmer King, of Lincoln, Nobraska, will receive Research Fellowships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Airplane Specialist Bollay Receives Appointment Here | 6/1/1937 | See Source »

Edward F. Prichard 2L showed student opposition as well as faculty to be acute, declaring that now a teacher can be dismissed for any slight variation from the "beaten path of mumbo-jumbo that is too often the bane of our educational system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHER SEES OATH AS DEFEAT OF EDUCATION | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

...before, the aged gelding romped over the rubbery, cushioned surface to set a new track record (2:04 3/5) over the 1¼ mile course. Astonished horsemen believe that this discovery, applied to other courses, may well lop off several seconds from existing records, will at least remove the bane of all racing men, a slow, wet track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Track Treatment | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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