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Word: corner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant campaigner. Mayor Dore's best stunt was to print handbills closely resembling dollar bills. They bore a picture of Franklin Roosevelt, were marked in each corner "One Vote," carried the legend "Tax Levy 1931, $10.010.408.01, Tax Levy 1933, $5,289,983.87. Dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Seattle's Choice | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...teammate, Walter Everett, crowded into the final by winning a special heat for boats that had placed second without get- ting any firsts. Dupuy, a daring driver who heeled his boat around the buoys so sharply that it resembled an oldtime cinema comedian turning a street corner, got away fast and held the lead for one complete circuit of the course. Tennes, away third, passed Everett on the first lap, caught Dupuy on the second. Chewing gum furiously, hunched in his cockpit like a football lineman, he drew away steadily for the next four laps, roared across the finish line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Finals | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...occasion. They were covered with tablecloths. Tables, and cooling and tap equipment were specially installed for the occasion. Mrs. Roosevelt, her daughter and her two daughters-in-law received the guests. As the party imbibed to satiety, all formality was laid aside and hilarity was unconfined. In a corner sat the President shaking hands and chatting with all who chose to greet him. Guests, tired from dancing in the historic East room, sauntered into the imposing hallway to quaff 3.2 beer. Never before, in the memory of man, were the sacred precincts of the executive mansion so used. Order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1934 | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...Modern Art, newly fitted for the occasion with aluminum, steel and micarta walls and black & white glass showcases. A huge red propeller on the Museum stoop keynoted the show. Inside was a glittering confusion of coils, springs, carpet sweepers, kettles, mirrors, ladles, automobile headlights, slide rules. In one corner a water faucet stood on a pedestal. On black velvet was a cluster of dental instruments. There was an array of tubular steel chairs, a number of suspended springs so delicate they responded to a breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beauty by Machine | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

Teachers College's bald, nervous Clyde R. Miller, reaching Cleveland early, key-noted before the Cleveland Schoolmasters' Club: "Two percent of the people in the nation control 85% of the wealth and I suspect that if they could sell air they would get a corner on it and let the rest of us suffocate."* Among his list of a dozen "axioms" were: 1) Life is worth living. If it isn't we ought to stand the unemployed up and shoot them or let them starve as our financial interests now blandly permit. 2) Most people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Columbians to Cleveland | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

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