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Word: firming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immediately responsible for Richard Whitney's downfall was a seemingly innocuous rumor-that his company was engaged in "distress selling" of Greyhound stock. Investigation proved the rumor apocryphal but proved the firm insolvent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Rather Horrifying | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Varsity debaters will be polite but firm this afternoon when they argue with a trio from Vassar on the value, if any, of the Equal Rights For Women amendment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS MEET VASSAR | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

After leaving Princeton, Morey went to Liberia for Rockefeller, and there picked up a scandal about Firestone and an acute case of malaria, according to his Harvard friends. Recuperating in Denmark and firm in the conviction that Rockefeller hires promising students merely to silence them, Morely invented his game, it is reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Card Game of "Significance" Gets H.S.U. Benediction | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

...newspapers immediately an nounced they would not recognize the "censorship," burgeoned with angry talk about "dictators" and "asinine orders." Citizens called up the papers to report petty accidents, robberies, the finding of an unidentified body. At the end of a quiet week Commissioner Eastwood was still holding firm, personally assured Tacomans no one had been murdered or kidnapped since his order took effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tacoma Tempest | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...rayon firm is American Viscose Corp., No. 2 Du Pont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: New Synthetic | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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