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Word: ceilinged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Kissam Vanderbilt called it Idle Hour: a 100-room house in Oakdale, Long Island, as sumptuous and showy as a Summer Palace of the Romanovs. Thirty years ago it cost about $7,000,000, but nowadays it is a bit run down. Last week 500 Truth Students, Adepts and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peaceful Fraternity | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

The Library will put up only the few hundred dollars needed for materials. WPA will pay Edward Laning and his three assistants $23.86 a week. He will paint in oil on canvas. When the paintings are pasted up on the panels in about a year the Library will also repair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mr. Stokes and the WPA | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

When the New Deal was really new, Franklin Roosevelt announced early and often that one of his aims was to legislate a floor under wages, a ceiling over work hours. While he was trying to make good with NRA, and losing to the U. S. Supreme Court, another New Dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: 44 Hours Out | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

In addition, Mr. Hopkins removed WPA's $1,000-a-year ceiling for Northern and Western white-collar workers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Showers from Heaven | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Actually, the floor and the ceiling would not move toward each other with this progressive precision. From the outset they would be subject to change.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Floors & Ceilings | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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