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Word: crowdedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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First question put to the Chamber was whether to recommit the bill-i.e., kill it. As the roll call proceeded, every Senator except three (Florida's Pepper, Indiana's Van Nuys, Nevada's McCarran) was present on the floor. Then, while the gallery- so crowded that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ninth-Inning Rally | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

In Washington, an hour and a half after Chairman Morgan thus defied the third and final dead line set by the President for withdrawing or supporting his public charges against his fellow directors, Harcourt Morgan and David Eli Lilienthal (TIME, March 28), a band of interested reporters crowded noisily into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Morgan Out, Morgan In | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Few U. S. Presidents ever acquired as much political prestige as Franklin Roosevelt had in December 1936. Few have lost as much as he lost in 1937. Crowded off the Congressional stage by the fight to enlarge the Supreme Court last spring, the plan to reorganize the executive branch was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reorganization Renaissance | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Turning up its streamlined nose at a bevy of "oohing" and "aahing" high-school girls, Staff Car No. 2 sped out to Wellesley, to discover the reactions to Spring of a cross-section of girls attending that college. Enticed from a dingy living-room where they were smoking what they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring Inspiring to Radcliffe, Means Bock Beer to Wellesley | 3/24/1938 | See Source »

The committee, however, decided to concentrate its efforts on "teaching and research," simply side-stepping the other questions. Budgetary problems and the trend to social sciences are closely related, for History, Government, and Economics in particular, and English to some degree, are Harvard's most crowded fields and promise to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COUNCIL MISSES FIRE | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

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