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Word: floor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe that we are in such a position!" This looked like the opening move in the Conservative Party plan to scare British voters into giving them a majority at the next general election. It looked even more like it when Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin took the floor for the National Government, replying to Mr. Churchill. ''We believe." rumbled Mr. Baldwin, "that Germany is in the course of expansion of her long-service army of 100,000 men into a short-service, peacetime army of 300,000 men in flat violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Far more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Camden, N. J., Francis B. Weaver, president of the State Board of Tax Appeals, sought to demonstrate in court how his wife choked him by yanking his necktie. "Like this," he said. He jerked his tie tight, choked, sank gasping to the floor. Soon he was unconscious. An attorney cut the necktie, revived Francis B. Weaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, N. Y. one day last month Death rounded out 18 years of solitude in her two-story house for 79-year-old Spinster Louisa Herle. When her safe yielded but a paltry $100,000, relatives immediately began a search of the house. On the top floor they found not a cent. Under mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Harvard Varsity hoopmen walked through their second victory of the season in as many starts. High scorer for the Crimson was Leavitt S. White '37, starting his first Varsity game for the Feslermen. White, who was captain of last year's Freshman team, accounted for five goals from the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY HOOPMEN WIN FROM ENGINEERS, 45-12 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Ernest A. Gray '37, sophomore center, was all over the floor again, and in the intervals when he was on his feet managed to slip in five points. On the defense his height and simian arms were potent stumbling-blocks for the Engineers, and his skill under the back-board prevented many enemy tallies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY HOOPMEN WIN FROM ENGINEERS, 45-12 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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