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Word: began (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the fireplace in the President's second-floor bedroom. On Christmas Eve, after the children have kissed "Grandpa" good night, the elder Roosevelts stuff the stockings. Into each toe goes a toothbrush, a nailfile, a gaily wrapped bar of soap-vestiges of a custom that Mrs. Roosevelt began, as a sugar-coated reminder of cleanliness, when her six-footer sons were little tads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Green Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Fifty years later Lumberman George T. Webb heard about these pines, took a look, last September bought up the stock of the Rugby Land Co. for $15,000. Soon his loggers began to fell the timber on the outskirts of the tract, getting closer & closer to the little village, until one pine crashed across the church fence. Aroused, tree lovers, historians, librarians of Tennessee, the few surviving Rugbyans protested. To their appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Trees | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Wigglesworth Hall was the scene of one of the first Christmas rackets yesterday afternoon when two men dressed in uniforms very similar to these used by the Salvation Army began soliciting monetary aid for a so-called "Christmas dinner for the poor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO MEN CAUGHT IN YARD FOR FRAUDULENT CHARITY DRIVE | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...addition, the Service has the privilege of dipping into a $20,000 emergency pot guaranteed by Boston philanthropists. To make the Service selfsupporting, it needs a minimum of 4,000 participants. Last week when the plan was announced, members of Boston clubs and unions eagerly called for details, began to round up recruits for a grand opening, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Service, Inc. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Year and a half ago two veteran Oklahoma oil men put a fancy new, aluminum-colored portable rotary drilling rig on display at the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla. It attracted little attention. Then the rig's attendants began to drill. At 540 feet they struck oil. Surprised, they capped the hole, turned the oil well over to Tulsa County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Derrick's End? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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