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Word: callings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quote temperature and humidity readings together, viz: if the temperature is 80° and the humidity is 75% then just put down 80:75 and call it, say, "tempahume" or anything else you can think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Chimed the Johannesburg Star: "If Prime Minister Chamberlain's peace efforts fail the British people all over the globe will recognize and respond to the call to duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Certain Obligations | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...says, were printed by order of Prince Ch'ien Su, of the Kingdom of Wu-yueh, and deposited in the cavities, made in the bricks user to build the pagoda on West Lake, Hangchow, which in later centuries became to be known as the Lai-Fung Pagoda. Tourists call it the Red Pagoda because of its color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Engraving Made In 974 A.D. Is Owned By Widener-- Greene Found It | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

...eleven backfield men on the whole Brown squad, it is in this department that the enemy rates strongest. McLaughry has had some good backs in his twelve-year regime, but not by any means the worst of them is his own son who will this afternoon go out and call the plays...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Crimson Is Given Edge In Season's Tough Opening Game With Brown Eleven Today | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

...make one doubt his close application to the study of morals as a science and suspect that there may be willy-nilly a touch of politics in his utterance: "The progress of mankind is in proportion to the advancement of truth and justice. These standards are fundamentally what we call morals. It is moral standards in government which sustain democracy itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOVER'S MORALS | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

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