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Word: getting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard Shearer as an undesirable man to have around. He was likely to do more harm than good. He wouldn't stay hitched. You might send him after the cows and he might take a gun and shoot the farmer's pigs instead. I never saw anybody who could get away with a hand-to-hand encounter with a skunk. I don't mean to call Mr. Shearer a skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Third star witness was Mr. Schwab's "boy," Eugene Gifford Grace, President of Bethlehem. He told that Shearer had been hired by S. W. Wakeman, vice-president of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., without his knowledge or approval. When he heard that Shearer was propagandizing: "I told Wakeman to get rid of him. Wakeman said another payment was due Shearer. I told him to make it immediately and get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...there is some difference of opinion among civilians concerning the right and wrong of prohibition. Some of it got into camp, but those on the negative side are in the brig. It's a closed question to the military, so as long as you wear those uniforms, don't get opinionated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quantico's Quandary | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...votes cast for Herbert Hoover last November. Democrats used the figure to show how hopeless would be Mr. La Guardia's chances of performing the miracle of defeating silk-hatted Mayor James John Walker. Undaunted, little Mr. La Guardia made answer that he had not tried to get out the vote-Mr. Bennett had not been a serious contender. Expected result: lively campaign, Walker reelection. reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Primaries | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...spent last Monday going around the London Parks looking for suitable places where children may get all the sun they want. ... I hope to arrange for sun bathing by the time next summer comes round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sun Baths | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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