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Word: hacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excuse for negligent medical service at the Dillon Field House. Not until the day when sports are abolished at Harvard, can one cent be subtracted from the medical appropriation of the most stubborn budget if this should endanger the health of any student. Granted, it is enticing to hack here but the difficulties of coaching and travelling cuts are not accompanied by the threat of life and death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SPRING FANCY | 4/20/1935 | See Source »

...Commissioner of Internal Revenue handles more public money than the Secretary of the Treasury, handles it secretly and is usually the worst sort of political hack. Most past Commissioners have safely played the political game of their patrons while in office, later cashed in on their experience by becoming highly-paid "tax consultants." Impartial observers rate quiet, genial Commissioner Helvering, 57, well above the level of his predecessors. Born in Felicity, Ohio, he got to Congress in 1913 by way of law practice in Kansas, sat for six years as an active tax legislator. He was Mayor of Salina, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Pink Slips | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

Princess O'Hara (Universal). When Old Man O'Hara, driver of a horse hack, is accidentally killed in a Manhattan taxi war, his daughter Princess (Jean Parker) blames Toledo (Chester Morris). The audience is rapidly made aware that Toledo has the golden heart traditional for mobsters in that blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...main room to the tower. From there a considerable climb up rickety ladders leads to the under side of the deck where the bell hangs. At that point a heavy cover over the hatchway leading to the deck is fastened down with two padlocks. These gave way to a hack-saw, providing access to the bell deck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLAPPER STOLEN FROM BELL IN MEMORIAL HALL | 3/14/1935 | See Source »

...unsavory reputation who has spent his life among the savages of the interior, and who is planning a search in those parts for a French deserter, wanted by the authorities. Together Perken and Claude find the Royal Way, eventually discover a temple with valuable bas-reliefs, which they hack off, load on their bullock-carts. Then they begin the slow fight through the jungle back to safety and fortune. First their drivers desert. Then they fall into the hands of the savage Mois. In the village where they are held captive Perken finds the French deserter he is looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Death | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

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