Word: close
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excused himself from the job on ground of ill health. To provide publicity for the balls and themselves, a battalion of major and minor Hollywood names descended on Washington in general, Eleanor Roosevelt in particular. Mrs. Roosevelt displaying what she insists is not a modified bob but merely a close side trim (see cut), introduced some of them to her husband, obliged with photographs and luncheons. Janet Gaynor, the President observed, was as "cute as a button...
...heard a voice barking papers on the platform. What paper were they calling? The voice sounded very close to his ears...
...examination will close in twenty minutes, gentlemen, the voice fairly sang...
...cautious supervision (TIME, Jan. 13, 1936). Last summer it issued a set of fair practice rules. But not until last week was it finally ready to take in hand the o-t-c market as firmly as it already has the exchanges. Through SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' close friend and political backer, Senator Francis T. Maloney of Connecticut, the Commission presented Congress with a bill to regulate over-the-counter trading...
...predicts that its Diesels will operate at half the cost of gasoline engines and with greater simplicity. Impatient prophets who interpret this as a sign that automobiles with Diesel engines are close at hand will have to burn while General Motors fiddles, according to Boss Kettering. Said he, opening the new plant: "You would not buy a Stradivarius violin and give it to a man to play in Carnegie Hall the same night. We have got a good fiddle, we know that, but we have got to do a lot of practicing...