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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That was an interesting bit of history introduced by President Hoover, namely the realization by Harding that he had been betrayed. . . . Intimations to that effect have frequently been made, but never by any one in a position to know as well as the President. . . . Of the faithlessness of which particular friend or friends did President Harding have knowl-edge-Fall, Daugherty, Forbes or Miller? If he had such knowledge, why did he not peremptorily dismiss them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Profit & Loss | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...What effective answer could I give them unless I too divested myself of every bit of clothing with which I could decently dispense and put myself to a still greater extent in harmony with the ill-clad masses? I adopted the small dhoti [two-foot-wide loin cloth] then and there, and I have worn it ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Loin Cloth Logic | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...factories, hotels and hospitals. The idea: Leningrad is only one hour by plane from Helsingfors. At any moment a Soviet air fleet may appear over the Finnish capital, loose gas bombs. On hotel tables at Helsingfors are round green receptacles for coins. A sign on each beseeches: "Give your bit for gas defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MENACE! ! Menace? | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...Bit by bit this doleful news reached the old Nautilus toddling over the Atlantic toward England. What if, in the Arctic, an iceberg clapped against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Submarine Failures | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...horse show in Montebucarlo, Italy, a horse bit a large chunk out of Theodore Crema's cheek. In intense pain and indignation, Theodore Crema thrust his hand into the horse's mouth, recovered the gob of flesh, drove with it several miles to a hospital. Surgeons restored the piece to Theodore Crema's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Well | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

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