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Word: flings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes to make millions of their own. But they had picked a dead cock in the pit. as Mr. Baruch could have told them. Failing to get the financing they had been promised, they were forced to liquidate their company after a few luckless years. General Johnson took a fling alone in the farm implement business while Mr. Peek turned to cornstalks and farm relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: In a Goldfish Bowl | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...historic law that renegades first fling invectives at their opponents, then invite them to a fight, and then when the fight gets hot, retire to oblivion wearing a mantle of morality, is proved anew in the recent letter of my critic. People are so low and dull as not to perceive serious arguments. It is my critic who first characterized one of my ideas as "shallow" instead of giving "a reasoned" statement of his disagreement. I will not seek the hospitable columns of the CRIMSON any more. Yet I do not retire from the fight. I am in the fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naked Fakir | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

Last week his Goddess seemed to fling all Germany prostrate before Conqueror Hitler's triumphal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...have seen no statement indicating that the President-elect desired any dictatorial powers. . . . Should Congress undertake to confer upon him dictatorial powers, I would hope, I would expect him to fling it back in the chattering teeth of a pusillanimous Congress with the reminder that he was the President of the U. S. and not its dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Borah on Dictatorship | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

...professor and later the youngest dean on record at the Law School of Indiana University. During the War he rose from captain to major in the field artillery, served as instructor in U. S. camps, met and made a Texas girl his wife. Last year Republican mudslingers prepared to fling the following heckle at Democrat McNutt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Indiana Dictator | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

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