Search Details

Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

"If the volume of vice in the U. S. Senate were proportioned to population, productive power or the total sum contributed toward national upkeep, some of those states which are now most vocal [against the tariff] would need amplifiers to make their whispers heard. Such states as Arizona, South Dakota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Light on Lobbying | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Blaine: What do you think of Wisconsin?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Light on Lobbying | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Freebooting General Borah, coalition co-leader: "Campaign pledges should be kept. That is what some of us are trying to do. ... The Senate will legislate, but it will take some time. . . . Remember, it takes longer to do a good job than a bad one."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Voice from Olympus | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Informed of Cassidy's arrest, Senator Blease of South Carolina asked mournfully: "Why do they pick on the Senate?" Always ready to believe the best, Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington, author of the Five & Ten Law, remarked: "There was nothing to show that he was delivering liquor to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Washington's War | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Esophageal Auscultation. Announcement by Dr. Samuel Bondi, professor of internal medicine at the University of Vienna, that he was regularly shoving a small stethoscope down the throats of his heart patients, revived attention in such esophageal auscultation. The heart is closer to the esophagus than to any other reachable part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medicine Notes, Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | Next