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Word: handedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ As scheduled, Dr. Roswell Magill, called to the Treasury last year as a tax expert, handed the President his resignation as Under Secretary, to return to his teaching and book-writing at Columbia University.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Morality Lecture | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Just before CAA took over, the Post Office Department had to award contracts for several new airmail lines. Average Government subsidy for carrying the mail, during the four years since airmail contracts have been subject to competitive bidding, has been about 17? a mile. But for the new routes, bids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pinched Penny | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

When Acting Justice Ralph M. Smith opened district court in Somerville, Mass, one morning last week, beaming Clerk Louis Connolly presented him with an empty docket. There had not been a single arrest in Somerville for 34 hours. Beaming even more brightly, Clerk Connolly then handed up a package from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Maiden Assize | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

In a Philadelphia court, Isaac Thomas admitted having participated in a crap game. The judge handed him the evidence -a pair of dice-and commanded him to roll them. Thomas threw a five, a three. Sentence: eight days.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

A vigorous believer in Anglo-American hands-across-the-sea is British Press Titan Lord Beaverbrook (born plain William Maxwell Aitken). Last week, when U. S. Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett arrived in London, Lord Beaverbrook's friendly hand had a distinctly ham quality about it. Speaking through his Daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: British Boomlet | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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