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Word: file (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role, rates as at least a major surprise. Night Must Fall, adapted from the play which Emlyn Williams wrote and acted for a year in London and two months in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 12), scores on both counts, easily the most interesting item in the year's cinema file on criminology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...last resort it is expected that they will file claims for the cost of gasoline for the squad cars, for one gross of tear gas bombs, one book entitled "How to Break Up a Riot," and two broken policemen's clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Hall Awaits Bill From City As Cops Go to Get Money's Worth | 5/6/1937 | See Source »

Cost of this foster obstetrics, if Professor File's plan becomes law, may amount to $14,000,000 a year. Local taxpayers are expected to supply $3,500,000. State taxpayers $3,500,000. The rest is expected to come from the Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Public Care | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

STRIKING the public eye in one of its most rigidly Puritanical periods, the diary of Maric Bashkirtseff created a sensation in Victorian England from Prime Minister Gladstone down to the rank and file of commoners who read it with relish. The diary was so popular that it was almost immediately translated into several languages, and it became synonymous with the appreciation of complete and candid self-revelation...

Author: By J.g.b. Jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/14/1937 | See Source »

...last week the Commission had burrowed down to A. & P.'s "unsatisfactory list," a file of suppliers who got no orders because they refused to yield to A. & P.'s economic bludgeoning. In previous hearings the Commission had learned how A. & P. bought Fleischmann's Yeast at 14 ?per lb., whereas little bakers paid as much as 25? how A. & P. had extracted a 4% discount on canned soups and vegetables from Maryland's Colonel Albanus Phillips; how A. & P. got 3% off on sardines from R. J. Peacock Canning Co. in Lubec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: This Is Business! | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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