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Word: clubbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being an ardent reader of TIME and LIFE I have been closely watching both publications and have failed to notice any expression from your readers for the beautiful, comfortable and most accessible club and reading rooms which you have opened to your subscribers in the TIME and LIFE Building this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Gave Vice President John Garner† a good excuse for conducting a front-porch Presidential campaign in 1940. Senate members of the Two Hours For Lunch Club presented him with a shiny new wicker rocking chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...first Taft-for-President Club was started at Marion, hometown of Ohio's late lamented Warren Gamaliel Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...textile workers paraded to celebrate the downfall of liquor, undisturbed by crowds thronging shops to get their last drink of toddy, the potent, fresh or fermented palm tree sap which, retailing for 4? a pint, gives India's native drinkers most of their alcohol. At the Royal Yacht Club Britons drank champagne and sang Auld Lang Syne as midnight struck and prohibition went into effect in the Bombay Presidency (77,221 square miles). For Bombay's 8,000 foreigners, mostly located in the city of Bombay (pop. 1,161,383), the law meant liquor rations -seven bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Toddy and Taxes | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...CONCERNED NOTIFIED-Helen Reilly-Crime Club ($2). Inspector McKee of Manhattan's Homicide Squad links a dead woman in a hotel with two well-to-do corpses in an old house in Greenwich Village. Merits: good characters, fast action, nocturnal chills. Fault: complicated family relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in July | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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