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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domestic or world prices should be raised, the White House would not say. But at his first postvacation Press conference, the President intimated under his breath that a desirable domestic price level would be that of 1924-25, much to the surprise of observers who understood that 1926, a bit more prosperous, had been picked as the key year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jul. 17, 1933 | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

After six months bald, hawk-eyed Judge John Munro Woolsey had tried to speed the longest U. S. criminal trial a bit by convening court a half-hour earlier each morning. That was after Chief Defendant Otto E. Goebel went on the stand every court day from March 30 to May 18. When he finished testifying he was 25 Ib. lighter and his hair had turned snowy white. The charge against him, his two sisters-in-law (Misses Irene & Elizabeth Flautt) and six salesmen was scandalous but simple. Goebel and associates had succeeded in bilking $3,000,000 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: 109-Day Trial | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...vocabulary-builders'' will be able to maintain their flair for vivid and witty epithets even during the summer's heat and humidity. Their characterization of members of the Civilization Conservation Corps, recruited from the unemployed, as "workers-in-the woods" (issue of June 19) is a bit flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...pioneer experimenter with x-rays first established their danger to the user; of cancer of the limbs caused by too frequent x-rays exposure; in San Francisco. Calif. To check the spread of cancerous tissue he had army surgeons operate on him 164 times, lost both arms bit by bit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

...young folk and of out-smarting them. In the course of events he shows what a chivalrous fellow he is by rescuing from a sharper the children of his old rival thereby uniting the firms and making peace and prosperity the lot of all. The pot-pourri contains a bit of romance, a bit of humor, and a lot of George Arliss. In Russia it will be correctly appraised as capitalistic propaganda, but the men who made it never thought of that, nor had they ever heard that there is in the cinema an art which can rise above...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/16/1933 | See Source »

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