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Word: ets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even from the mouths of these obscure individuals was alarmist Dr. Wirt able, on the stand, to substantiate his lurid allegations. None of them had actually told the 60-year-old educator that the America of Washington, Lincoln, et al. would have to be destroyed. None had said that they sought to introduce a U. S. Soviet by "thwarting our then evident recovery." The tissue of the story sagged still further when Dr. Wirt, the glare of Klieg lights pitilessly burnishing his baldish brow, confessed that he had "done a great deal of talking." He also appeared to have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pish & Piffle | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...Farrell is priming Chet Litman for the 220 low hurdles against Princeton on Saturday, May 5. Litman has been working overtime by running through plays with Coach Casey et al.in spring football and if he takes wings on the cinders he should be able to help out with the backfield situation next fall. Chet has always confined himself to the good earth and it will be a new experience leaping the barriers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So the Story Goes . . . | 4/18/1934 | See Source »

...hunting season on utility and financial magnates, never enjoying a closed season to be sure but comparatively quiescent since Wiggin, Chase et al were salted away last year, seems to be enjoying another period when game is plentiful. Samuel Insull, recently trapped after a long pursuit by Federal authorities, has now been followed by O. P. van Sweringen as prey to the righteous. Unlike the Insull case, which is virtually over with the exception of refunding losses to the suckers and casting Insull into durance vile, the van Sweringen affair may yet have repercussions which will make the Federal authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 4/17/1934 | See Source »

...United Aircraft & Transport Corp., whose President Philip G. Johnson announced decision to reorganize in order to bid for future mail rights.* In line with the Administration's wishes, United's big operating unit (United Air Lines) will be divorced from manufacturing subsidiaries (Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, et al.). In announcing the change President Johnson gravely protested cancellation of his company's mail contracts last February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Confusion Confounded | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...sounds but the honesty of Barbara Stanwyck's performance is as successful as that of the heroine's card playing. Good shot: Lady Lee's amazement when her husband requests her to give back to Sheila Aiken the jewels she has won at vingt-et...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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