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Word: cramped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government $1,097,413.22 from World War I, and owes Philadelphia $1,229,608 in back taxes. It offered to settle for $100,000 apiece, got Attorney General Frank Murphy to agree provided it can become a going concern again, started reorganizing to open its moldy Cramp's yard in Philadelphia. On the west coast, where last spring the U. S. Navy had tried unsuccessfully to buy Bethlehem Steel's Hunters Point Drydock in San Francisco harbor, and where Admiral Land is determined to build two new shipyards, the rush to restore obsolete capacity was wildest. Western Pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Ships-- for What? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Consul General William M. Cramp remained in Warsaw as he had in Addis Ababa three years ago, when he and his assistants turned away Ethiopian marauders with machine-gun fire, saving U. S. lives and State documents. When the Nazis besieged Warsaw, 136 U. S. citizens of Polish extraction took refuge at the embassy. Asked how long he would stay, Consul General Cramp replied: "Until 136 U. S. citizens are able to leave Warsaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...each entry in the Houses. The men in charge are as follows: Eliot, Quinby Taylor '41, Roger S. Schafer '41; Dunster, Joel C. Goldthwait '40, Philip L. Strong '40; Adams, Thomas lacey '41, Robert A. James '41; Leverett, Harry W. Hollmeyer '40, Benjamin Wilcox '40; Lowell, Joseph R. Cramp '40, LeBaron R. Briggs '41; Winthrop, Phillip Thayer '41, Duncan Lane '41; Kirkland. Richard S. Lane '41, Francis M. Shapson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. Continues Old Clothes Campaign Throughout Week | 5/24/1939 | See Source »

Fifty-four per cent of the upperclassmen who took History I went to cramp parlors for their instruction. Only 35% of the students in Government I received aid; French E comes next with 27%, and Economics A is third with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upperclassmen Tutor Mostly in History I, poll Figures Indicate | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

...organ of investigation." Such was the advice Psychiatrist Alexander Reid Martin gave to dentists and public health specialists at a meeting on child dentistry in Manhattan last week. Parents who keep snatching things from their children's mouths not only prevent infants from exercising their jaws, but also cramp the development of personality, for a child's first "satisfactions and pleasures, his first hungers and frustrations" are centred around his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Emotions and Teeth | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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