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Word: biding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was only one of three items on the agenda for the Conference, others being "Constitutional Questions" and "Trade, Shipping, and Air Communications." Mr. Baldwin, Imperial Conferences being the delicate things they are, had to bide his time. First Canada's King wanted to know what Great Britain intended to do about the preferential trade agreements signed between the Dominions and the mother country at the Imperial Conference at Ottawa in 1932. Since then Canada has signed a reciprocal trade treaty with the U. S. and Secretary Hull has been pressing Stanley Baldwin with requests for a reciprocal treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Legal Equals | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Married. Doris Dudley, 18, stage & screen actress (End of Summer, A Womat Rebels), daughter of Manhattan Critic Bide Dudley; and Jack E. Jenkins, Beverly Hills restaurateur; in Yuma, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...while he waited with the patience of a man who has a simple one-track philosophy and is willing to bide his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Pan-American Party | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Harvard has been at this sort of business for so long that it can bide its time Harvard, almost alone among our universities, need not hurry. For it knows that if it never did anything else from now until doomsday, it has already vastly surpassed the fondest anticipations of its founders in contributing to the "advance of learning and to the perpetuation thereof to posterity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hendrik Wiltem Van Loon Sees Future Harvard as Great Fortress of Learning | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...family on a mere $25 a week. ... As Mae West might say, 'They done me wrong.' " In the Manhattan apartment of 30-year-old Pulitzer Prize Dramatist (Men in White) Sidney Kingsley, blonde Actress Doris Dudley (End of Summer), 18-year-old daughter of Radio Theatre Critic Bide Dudley, flounced into the bathroom, shot herself in the breast with a .22 rifle. A suicide note was found. Day after the shooting, which caused only a minor wound, the two renewed announcement of their engagement, said the suicide story was bosh, that the shooting was an accident. In South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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