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Word: chopping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that an educational institution cerebrates on its belly, and good scholarship must wait upon a balanced menu. Were the authorities to focus upon the problem under their noses, the path would straightway be cleared for the furtherance of the humanities. And incidentally pruning the bully beef and mutton chop outlay would not only finance the purchase of greens but might net Lehman Hall a tidy little surplus as well. Rhodes P. Frothingham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let 'em Eat Cake | 3/13/1934 | See Source »

...sable boa and muff, with a black ribbon inscribed "Yacht Meteor" in gold on her left sleeve, she firmly seized a bottle of White Seal champagne (in silver net to catch glass splinters), swatted it cleanly against the ship's side and with a little silver hatchet chopped, in one chop, the heading cord. Prince Henry cabled to his imperial brother: "The yacht christened by the hand of Miss Roosevelt just launched in the presence of brilliant assembly. Beautiful ship. Great enthusiasm. I congratulate you from a full heart.-HEINRICH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...weight. . . . There is no point in insisting on a return to the old gold parity, but a scheme to depreciate the dollar to uncertain limits . . . does not inspire confidence. The peril of sheer greenbackism is real and not imaginary." Chamber of Commerce. At a special meeting dominated by chop-whiskered old Leonor Fresnel Loree, the New York State Chamber of Commerce solemnly resolved that "measures should be taken with the utmost promptness looking toward the restoration of a permanent gold standard in the U. S. . . . It is of the greatest im portance to business recovery that the Administration clearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dollar Squeezing | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...your Sept. 25 issue, under heading Medicine, Secretary of Labor Perkins says: "No amount of statistics and no number of bulletins can take the place of a lamb chop and a glass of milk at the right moment." I would like to give a true case that might interest Secretary of Labor Perkins and her semiweekly conference with doctors, dietitians, educators and sociologists, on undernourished school children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1933 | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...next oldest in a family of nine children raised on a South Georgia farm. I can never remember seeing on our table a lamb chop, glass of sweet milk, whole wheat bread, spinach, lettuce or celery. Our parents disliked sweet milk and we were not forced to drink it. We ate fruits & vegetables in season: none out; had beef on Sundays. We consumed approximately the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1933 | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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