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Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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But is there not something more than an opportunity which should be offered to them? All men have not the force of character to walk forward on their own initiative and grasp such opportunity. Examples by the score can be found in the College today of men who have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, PRIVATELY ENDOWED | 5/29/1936 | See Source »

". . . We know quite well that when inflation of the kind and character embodied in the Frazier-Lemke Act is adopted, commodity prices rise but wages stand still. We cannot subscribe to this sort of eco-nomic philosophy. Labor would suffer reduction in living standards, reduced buying power, and the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Voice of Voltaire | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Before grey-lipped Neville Chamberlain took a little key from his watch chain and opened the battered red leather Budget box to announce to the House of Commons last month a rise in the tax on tea and another threepence to the pound of income tax, somebody must have peeked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Friend's Friend's Friend | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Article 48 of section 2 of the State Constitution states clearly that initiative and referendum petitions do not apply to the appointment, qualification, tenure and removal of judges, but yet Mr. Curley feels that by subterfuge or bluffing he can circumvent this restriction. As Representative Bowker of Brookline said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AN EYE FOR AN EYE..." | 5/20/1936 | See Source »

SALKA VALKA - Halldor Laxness -Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Caustic realism and old-fashioned sentiment combined in a lengthy sociological history of corruption, lust and political conflict in an Icelandic fishing village. Author Laxness has a weakness for rhetoric, a hand skilled at character dissection.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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