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Word: duckings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such popular periodicals as TIME would join in the advocacy of this much-needed legislation, two-term presidential administrations will go the way of the "lame duck" session of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Jan. 23, 1933 | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Weighing well, let Subscriber White hound his Congressman or Senator to present a Constitutional Amendment for a single term for President, noting Senator George William Norris' long fight against the "lame duck" session, won in Congress last year (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.). TIME will report progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Jan. 23, 1933 | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...Duck Soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1933 | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

That barrage of tongue-twisters may be duck soup for Chancellor Chamberlain and "to the more responsible and more informed section of opinion in the United States," but are they not a bit heavy for the mere Middle West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1933 | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...beer bill through the House of Representatives (TIME, Dec. 26); of acute indigestion; in Washington. Beer associate of St. Louis' Adolphus Busch and Manhattan's Col. Jacob Ruppert, he long lobbied for the U. S. Brewers' Association, led the American Bar Association fight to abolish "lame duck" sessions of Congress, at one of which his beer bill was finally passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

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