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Word: dismisses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Nuffield will be remembered when many a belted earl and many a British statesman are forgotten dust, Mayfair has been too inclined to dismiss his magnificent philanthropies as vulgar show of wealth. Last week, however, aristocrats could read in the Sunday Express about something they appreciated, Viscount Nuffield's ancestors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ancestors | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...unsurpassed degree, none of the leading roles in the picture show any appreciable amount of acting ability. Edward Everett Horton, as Miss Robson's secretary, and boxer Hugh (Woo-Woo!) Herbert are amusing enough. Best line:--Miss Robeson, on being awakened by a lustily crowing cock, cries, "Dismiss the rooster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/5/1937 | See Source »

...five locals from three different States) to call special conventions, to decrease the delegate representation of big locals, i.e., the Flint and West Detroit strongholds of Unity Lieutenants Robert Travis and Walter Reuther. Mr. Martin announced that an even more high-handed proposal, to give the president power to dismiss other executive officers, would be returned to committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Problem Child | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...rule out the unfit is to dismiss them, and N. A. L. U. President Theodore M. Riehle announced that 66% of the membership had pledged themselves to do so. In the past year there were 3,000 such dismissals. A more constructive plan was offered by Vice President Henry E. North of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. who announced the establishment of a $30,000 co-operative fund for underwriter education through the American College of Life Underwriters. Purpose: "To organize and make available in an organized manner the information which men heretofore entering the business have had to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Unfit Underwriters | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...whom it denied the ministrations of the Church, and implied that Regent Paul might have been excommunicated had he not so carefully stood aloof. Cautiously the Regent returned from Slovenia, hastened to the Cathedral, kissed the ikon upon the bier of the Patriarch, fervently prayed and was besought to "Dismiss Stoyadinovich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Orthodox Ragout | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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