Word: calls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the standpoint of the greatest number of arrests-both felony and misdemeanor-hopheads, gambling joints, "hook-shops" (mostly girls on "call" or working out of their own apartments), TIME'S area is probably San Francisco's toughest. It is an area that seems to sleep in the daytime in order to teem with activity at night...
Among numerous blasts at this astronomic dream was the report of Economist James Douglas Brown's Advisory Council (TIME, Dec. 26). That council, representing Government, Labor and the Public, recommended that in order to hold down the reserve, Social Security call a temporary halt to rate increases, begin payments of full benefits in 1940 instead of 1942, and extend them to more people. Last week, in a report to the House Ways & Means Committee, Henry Morgenthau said nothing about speeding up payments. But he did approve another suggestion: to give up the idea of "full reserve" and substitute...
...article brought an immediate call at the Foreign Office from German Minister Prinz Viktor zu Wied, who called it a gross insult on the person of the Field Marshal. The author of that gross insult, it turned out, was none other than the Knight of the Silver Shield-Nils Silfver sköld, brother-in-law of Field Marshal Göring...
...sample day the call went out for a scuttle of coke, a picture of soldiers, a bi cycle saddle attached to the back, twelve marbles on a flat plate, a package of dried fruits, five francs in 50-centime pieces, a piece of cloth tied around the leg, a mineral-water bottle label, one hand drawn on a piece of white paper and the ability to conjugate on arrival, while standing, the imperfect subjunctive of the verb s'asseoir (to sit down).* It is interesting and profitable work for housewives, youths and the unemployed, who have the after noon...
Wooderson is a frail-looking London solicitor whom the British fondly call "Leather Legs." Main chance U. S. runners have at his three world records is over the ultra-fast cinder track in Princeton's Palmer Stadium, where Cunningham, Ben Eastman and New Zealand's Jack Lovelock all set previous world records...