Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand the duties are- as has been pointed out by the Home Secretary-merely of a purely automatic nature not requiring any maturity of judgment at all but merely the ability to write one's name in a fairly legible hand, then I should imagine that even the young heir to the throne just now, if she has attained ordinary educational advancement, is capable of this particular act." Such gentle fun sped the Regency Bill along to pass the House overwhelmingly 307 to 1, with Mr. Maxton not voting because he acted as a teller...
...British Newspaper Proprietors' Association last week. During the months and years in which the story of Mrs. Simpson grew abroad, the docile N. P. A. muzzled itself under Government pressure and kept mum as long as possible, but recently its reporters and cameramen have "got completely out of hand"-in the House of Commons' opinion...
...been representing his country at the League Council's 96th session (TIME, Feb. 1). That suave diplomat, onetime obstetrician, had now delivered for Turkey a League settlement of the Turkish-French dispute over the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta which Dictator Mustafa Kamal Ataturk had demanded that France hand to him from her Syrian mandate (TIME...
...city was enigmatic General Yang Fu-cheng, erstwhile accomplice of the kidnapper. Nanking continued to figure that Yang had been or could be bought, gradually became alarmed last week over whether he could deliver-i. e., could get the Young Marshal's officer-butchering troops in hand within a reasonable time...
...damages. In 1930, Frederick & Raymond Swetland tried to enjoin Curtiss Airports Corp. of Cleveland from infringing on their property rights, claiming that low-flying Curtiss planes disturbed them, by their noise and by dropping leaflets. The court ordered the airmen to cease dropping things. In 1934, on the other hand, Clovis Thrasher sued the city of Atlanta, Ga., charging that it permitted planes to fly too low, endangering him. and annoying him by the dust they stirred up. He lost the case. And in the same year a similar suit was dismissed in Pennsylvania with the ruling: "Invasions...