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Word: furthers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy-three-year-old Mr. McElroy, whose honesty had not been questioned up to last week, first balked, then glumly removed the official insignia and siren from his car and resigned. This shocked Kansas City as thoroughly as did the 1933 kidnapping of his daughter, Mary, for whom he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: First Floor Cleaned | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

To me the peak of his feats is requesting somebody from the audience to pick five notes--any five notes on the piano--which he will weave into an original melody, and at further demand, play that melody in the style of Mozart, Bach, Gershwin, or anybody else handy. Try...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

This was the closest scandal had ever come to Hartford Electric Light Co. and it went no further. Viggo Bird resigned at once and Samuel Ferguson resumed the presidency, announced that the embezzlement did not involve the utility but New London Northern R. R. Co., of which Viggo Bird was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: BORROWED BONDS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Last week, he was visibly glad the strain was over. He made good all but $30,000 of the loss, offered his house to reduce the deficit further, said he wanted to take his medicine. Impressed, the judge let him off with two to five years in State prison.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: BORROWED BONDS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

What we saved and helped enlarge was the French and British world hegemony. People say Nazis and Fascists must have myths. In the next war American soldiers will need myths, because that is the form of democracy they will be fighting for in Europe. Perhaps one result will be a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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