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Word: busiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approached, led by the Very Rev. Monsignor Camillo Caccia Dominioni, plump Master of the Papal Household, a favorite of Pius XI and, it is believed, one of the two cardinals secretly nominated at last month's consistory (TIME, March 20)- secretly because, certain to be one of the busiest Vatican functionaries during the Holy Year, he would have no time for a cardinal's duties. Monsignor Caccia Dominioni consulted a picture postcard, directed workmen to a spot on the wall. With chisels and mallets they chipped away plaster. Presently a hollow was discovered, containing a bronze casket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 1900th Passion | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...Maintenance Department is one of the busiest in the University. Often they have crews of workmen of different types at work about the buildings, which reach, as a whole, at their peak, to over 300. This includes 90 to 110 men on the grounds crew, 70 to 100 painters, and 50 to 100 carpenters, as well as many other specialists, such as window washers and chimney cleaners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Board Walks Require Crew of 25 Men Over a Week To Place Them--Maintenance Staff Keeps 300 Men Busy | 12/8/1932 | See Source »

...scene of the boxing matches so famous in Teddy Roosevelt's time. Often did the little dice click on the floors in some remote, but now dusty corner of the room. Foamy beer trickled down the throats and the room rang with joyous song. This was "the busiest room within the walls of the busiest building in the East" as "Mem" was often termed in days gone by. Today, three men enter the portal. One is elderly, white, and bent with age, one is a man in his fifties, the third is an undergraduate with crew haircut. The first recalls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Hall Scene of Numerous Episodes Connected With Harvard History --- Carrie Nation's Riot There Memorable | 11/30/1932 | See Source »

...biggest, busiest airports are operated like railroad terminals with announcers, numbered gates, everything to keep the passenger from going where he should not go. But at many fields it is still possible to do what a Dr. Andrew W. Speer of Wilkinsburg, Pa. did last week at Pittsburgh. He bought a $1 ticket for a joyhop, stepped into a nearby plane, made himself comfortable. The ship took off, set Dr. Speer down an hour & a half later in Columbus, Ohio. Good-natured officials of the airline (Transcontinental & Western Air) gave the bewildered doctor a free trip back to Pittsburgh (roundtrip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Wrong Plane | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...copyrighted himself, to prevent them from being used for advertising. When asked why his name appears so frequently in all the Commission's correspondence, Congressman Bloom becomes perturbed. He says: "My God, somebody has got to sign the mail!" He and his 125 subordinates have one of the busiest bureaus in the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Business of a Bicentennial | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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