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Word: handedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The traditional knowledge of British subjects that their civil servants are incorruptible was at stake last week as a verdict was handed down on the recent case in which part of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain's new Budget leaked out in advance to speculators who made small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Jimmy's Paradox | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Another reporter on the job at the Gordonsville tragedy was United Pressman Levings Somers Willis. Of the sordid stuff he saw, says he: "I have in my desk a charred piece of jawbone of the man which was handed my wife by one of the crowd at the scene. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Meeting in the final session of its 1935-36 term, the U. S. Supreme Court this week handed down one more 5-to-4 decision against "social justice."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Fixed Opinions | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

In Wyoming's Big Horn Basin one day last year a young laborer attached to a paleontological expedition from Princeton University dug out a chunk of fine-grained, greenish-grey sandstone. He could see hat this hard matrix contained fossil fragments, but the bones were so small that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Small Miracle | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Thereupon Vasile Foar sued B. & O. for $37,500 damages. A jury eventually awarded him $4,500. The case was then carried to a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week in Chicago the Circuit Court handed down a unanimous decision holding that Vasile Foar had been discharged without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reward | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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