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Word: exits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exit Standing ruggedly ready but idle in the wings of the New Deal show for several weeks has been General Robert Elkington Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Last March when business appeasement was in the wind Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins invited him to Washington as a special adviser. Since then Harry Hopkins has been ill, and appeasement in U. S. politics like appeasement in European politics, has lost its vigor. Last week, as even hoped-for revision of deterrent corporate taxes disappeared (see p. 17), General Wood left the wings without going on stage and returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exit | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...promised land, Vag found himself frustrated. Muttering grimly about "a pesky younger brother," he sat down on a bench. But Billy, instead of getting better, felt worse and worse; finally Vag thought discretion the better part of valor, and he took Billy down the corridor towards the exit. As he left the fragrant Garden he kept wishing that he had eaten all of Billy's hot dog while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...couple of years ago Harold Wolff began to notice a lack of fincase in the tactics of certain competitors and forsaw trouble ahead. Mr. Wolff began to walk, not run, toward the nearest exit, and he has now reached what he considers to be safe ground. Mr. Wolff is not a tutor at all, he says, at least not in the commercial sense. His metier is "guidance and supervision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALIAS "GUIDANCE" | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

...Five marble-floored rooms at the extreme east end of the station, with a private exit to motor cars. Three of the rooms are high-ceilinged salons with official seals, handsome paneling, mahogany & blue leather furniture. Two retiring rooms are fitted with new streamlined plumbing (light cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Royal Route | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...action, Vag sprang to the rescue, dashed down a side alley, and burst through a small door at the rear of the Big Tree. Acrid smoke filled his nostrils. But undaunted, he staggered on through a dark corridor shouting, "Everybody keep calm. Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

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