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Word: boiledness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Significance. Depending on their sympathies, observers regarded the poll-priming furor as either: 1) the beginning of a hard-boiled Party purge which by 1940 might result in a serious Democratic schism; or 2) the pained but pointless howling of anti-New Dealers who, if driven into the wilderness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pumps & Polls | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Defendants' method of capture, as described by Mr. Ballantine, more or less boiled down to these three main points: 1) Control of an investment trust called First Income Trading Corp. was bought with money borrowed from Paine, Webber and repaid from First Income's own assets. 2) Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Puzzle Started | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

By May last year Dick Whitney again was scratching for pennies. Between May 19 and the end of the year he got a succession of bank loans-$50,000 from the Corn Exchange Bank, $75,000 from the Marine Midland, $75,000 from the National City, $100,000 from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sorely Mistaken | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Last year some 30 books struggled for the first six places on best-seller lists. Some, like Northwest Passage, stayed on top all year. But of more than 4,000 titles published in the last six months, only five managed to crowd out these old favorites. Last month, as Dale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Sellers | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Beside its case-hardened picture, this soft-boiled conclusion seems not only limp but incompatible.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking Pictures | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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