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Word: carded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention came out flat-footedly against "spiritually destructive methods of raising money," such as church card parties and dances, by approving the American Missions Board's decision to withdraw support from 575 mission churches if they persist in so raising funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lutherans in Columbus | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Grant's reasons for appointments to foreign posts was because he wanted to get someone out of the country. The high point of Hamilton Fish is in its picture of the strange and lonely President, who would send his old friends to Fish with a card stating his willingness "to give the bearer . . . one of the best consulates now vacant," who confided State secrets to strangers and who was so inattentive that after weeks of discussion he would suddenly ask a question that betrayed complete ignorance of the subject discussed. After 27 months of the Cuban revolt, when Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Statesman Among Scoundrels | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Varsity practice in the Stadium will be open to all undergraduates this afternoon at 3 o'clock upon presentation of a bursars card...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRID SQUAD FACES INDIAN INVASION IN HOPEFUL SPIRITS | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

Producing five cards, Father Summers asked the newshawk to choose one in his mind, then deny, card by card, that he had selected any of them when they were reshown him. Watching the needle, Father Summers flipped the five cards, heard the newshawk's answers, then declared: "Your card was the three of diamonds." The newshawk was compelled to admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychogalvanometer | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...side of Michael McGranaghan's business card says M. Jas. McGranaghan, Chiropractor. On the other side it reads M. Jas. McGranaghan, Attorney at Law. He practices law from 9 to 12 each morning, chiropractic from 2 to 6 each afternoon, will take a case involving either profession at any hour. When he stops being a lawyer he lays aside his cigar, steps back of a curtain, puts on a black dressing gown edged with white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chiropractors Curbed | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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