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Word: botherations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Keidan that the number of indisputable facts adduced by his investigation was pitifully small. His jurisdiction was purely State; the U. S. Treasury, prowling around Detroit on its own secret investigation, refused to open the books of the two big defunct banks and forbade its overworked officials to bother with testifying. What Judge Keidan received were rattling salvos of highly- personalized undocumented charge and countercharge. The whole story, the true story was yet to be told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Whitewash in Detroit | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...results of his wrestling with the problem of retaining Maxwellian theory as a guide for what ought to happen under quantum conditions. But his equations incorporated the quantum mechanics only as a special restriction on the old laws, and they were such jungles of intricacy that encyclopedias did not bother to include them in discussions of his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Maxwell-Quantum Theory | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...this lake, which is an heroically shaped Owl-the Club's insignia ("Weaving spiders come not here"). Here the captured effigy of care is oared from across the lake in a medieval barge, and laid on a funeral pyre, where amidst much colorful ritual, he is cremated, to bother man no more-until next year. He is not buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1933 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...husband's statue. Arizona Democrats nominated Mrs. Greenway to be their State's lone Representative-at-large, succeeding Lewis Williams Douglas, now Director of the Budget. So great is her personal popularity that she defeated two male rivals more than 4-to-1. Republicans did not even bother to nominate an opponent for her in the November election. No one was happier over her success than her bosom friends, the Franklin D. Roosevelts. Simultaneously Arizona became the 21st State to ratify the Repeal Amendment to the Constitution. Nominee Greenway was born Isabella Selmes 46 years ago in Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lady at Large | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...resentment when his brother fell in love with the baronet's widow, made a will in her favor. He felt that he had been unjustly cheated out of an inheritance. When Maxwell tried to take an innocent-looking but impossible jump in the hunting field. Stephen did not bother to warn him, let him break his neck instead. Then Stephen quietly suppressed the will by which his brother's estate went to Lady Fearless and her small son Nigel, and took possession himself. Conveniently, Lady Fearless was drowned as her husband had been. Young Nigel, whisked away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fortune Making | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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