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Cautious to avoid political burns, President Hoover last week dipped into the seething caldron of ambitions which Washington has lately become, and flipped out several well-done new appointees. Chief of these were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...students who had come from Bucharest and Jassy to hold a Nationalist congress at Oradia Mare, later claimed that the riots started when two Jewish butchers poured a caldron of boiling water on the heads of student marchers. This tale, perhaps true, was the only excuse offered last week, for the following student reprisals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Student Outrage | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

Frank A. Vanderlip: "In Pasadena I addressed the Caldron Club and told them that America's foreign policy is in the hands of amateurs and that the United States should enter the League of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Mar. 31, 1923 | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

...basement of the Smith Halls, on the southern side, is the immense kitchen for all the dormitories, with its capacious ovens, its steamers and caldron-like soup kettles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSING THE FRESHMAN CLASS | 9/26/1914 | See Source »

...inflicted on the day previous to his death was still apparent in the stripes on his skin. These marvelous proofs of austerity were increased by the sight of innumerable vermin with which the haircloth abounded-boiling over with them, as Dean Stanley describes it, like water in a simmering caldron...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Plea for Athletics. | 2/3/1888 | See Source »

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