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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masquerader," University--A pleasant romance starring Ronald Colman and Elissa Landi. The other feature, "The Narrow Corner," contains an excellent bit of character portray al by Dudley Digges. Last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boards and Billboards | 9/27/1933 | See Source »

California's lanky Senator William Gibbs McAdoo & wife sailed for Europe. Asked whether there was any official significance in his proposed visit to Russia, Senator McAdoo replied: "Not a damn bit ... I am going as a U. S. Senator looking for information. I can never learn enough about things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1933 | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...Difference, not indifference" shouts the Critic. True. It was within the memory of man, (i.e. last spring) when the CRIMSON rec'd this bit:--"The.. manuscripts.. have been.. petty, (and) the editors declared that the next issue.. would not appear until fall." The stick continues, "Some of the most intelligent men in the University (Critic editors) have written on such subjects as the conversion of the chapel into a hockey rink, a University institute for the dissemination of birth control devices...

Author: By I. D., | Title: THE CRIME | 9/23/1933 | See Source »

...first trip abroad for this small, grey-haired publisher and editor of the Sumner County (Tenn.) weekly News. This appointment was the only one asked of the President by his good friend and fellow Tennesseean, Secretary of State Hull. Declared Minister Albright: "I'll perhaps do a bit of writing for the paper as the folks in Gallatin and all the countryside sort of know me and would like to know what it seems like abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: Portfolios Full | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...wholly inadequate for Armour & Co. In the post-War slump when J. Ogden Armour lost his fortune, Armour & Co. took a terrific beating, emerged from reorganization with a debt of $144.000,000. Its funded debt is still $91,000,000. T. G. Lee could do this simple bit of arithmetic: add to $6,000,000 (interest charges), $4,000.000 (guaranteed dividends on the preferred stock of its subsidiary, Armour & Co. of Delaware) and $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 (for deprecia- tion) and the total makes over $17,000,000 that Armour & Co. must earn before it will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stockyards Meeting | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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