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Word: biddinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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A different, a less democratic type of sportsman is Harold Stirling Vanderbilt. Deprived of the incentive of fortune-building and at the same time equipped with a limitless facility for the cultivation of whims by his share ($30,000,000) of the monumental capital of his family, he turned to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Newport | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

Said Vallabhai to a crowd of wailing women bidding him farewell:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Shots in an Orchard | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

Mr. Parham, supercilious Cambridge don, meets Sir Bussy Woodcock, self-made millionaire, at a dinner. They are mutually fascinated by each other's queerness. They become occasional companions though never intimates. Sir Bussy's intellect is insatiable, restless; he has the money to gratify his curiosity. When he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Wells' Wonderland | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

In bidding for rural votes with the highly controversial principle of "price fixing," Mr. Baldwin justified his stand by dramatically proclaiming: "Agriculture today is in the worst state since the Seventies!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Guaranteed Wheat | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Very confusing are the ways of the taxi industry in New York. Hack stands are divided into private concessions and public stands. The former on private property (railroad terminals, ferry terminals, shipping piers) are leased to low-bidding cab companies. Most of the large private concessions in the city are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cry Babies | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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