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Word: disturbes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of $65 is not unusual or excessive. In 1925 the price in Canada was $75, although then there was nothing like the demand for pulp for other than news print purposes that there is today. Demand has definitely overtaken supply, and if there is no major international disturb ance, there is nothing can avert an acute shortage in five years' time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Paper Progress | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...tires of the company of his fellow man and desires to study or meditate, he finds that the comparative isolation of his own room makes for this. He will not have a whole group of room-mates rushing in, nor will the tramp of many feet along the hall disturb him, for all of the rooms are singles or doubles and there are never more than four rooms on one floor of an entry...

Author: By Perry J. Culver, | Title: Lowell, Noted for Individuality, Has Outstanding House Athletic Record | 3/27/1937 | See Source »

...Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association supported by such labor leaders as Vice President G. E. Joselyn of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, President James A. Phillips of the Order of Railway Conductors and Captain James J. Delaney of the Masters, Mates & Pilots of America. It did not disturb easy-going Laborite Harrison that when the week ended he had little to show for the meeting except a date for another (Feb. 8). Said he with a chuckle: "We never used to get anything-but now, with a sympathetic Congress. . . ." To that John Pelley's reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: All Aboard! | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Because a hen can recognize winter or spring only by the way she feels, unseasonable weather may disturb this rhythm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Egg Stabilization | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Next to our native land, Japan seems to have the wheels spinning in a more orderly manner than eleswhere. No vulgar civil wars disturb the little yellow men, one of whom has just won a contest by raising a beard five inches longer than he is, far surpassing both of the Smith Brothers. This remarkable personification of Japanese resource carries his growth in a handbag when he goes walking, so as not to sully the end. So far from being confused, he seems to have a very highly developed philosophy of life. And with a beard like that, he must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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