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Word: handly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth noting that proportion has been made among the many masters and schools. And some outline should be given of what awaits a visitor, whether he is a connoisseur who knows the field, or a layman who would go far to see a drawing made by the hand of Raphael or Durer or Rubens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

Although the Varsity has held informal practice sessions during the mid-year period, the players are not in top condition. Some of them have found it impossible to attend these practices. On the other hand the St. Nicks have been playing regularly since last facing the Crimson...

Author: By John M. Eaton jr., | Title: STUBBSMEN ENGAGE ST. NICKS SEXTET IN REVENGE COMBAT | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

...Sixty-five thousand people are totally deaf; 75,000 more are deaf & dumb; 200,000 lack a hand, arm, foot or leg; 300,000 have permanent spinal injuries; 500,000 are blind; 1,000,000 more are permanent cripples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sickness Survey | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...vague. SEC ordered that all dealers register. Two years ago, after a majority had done so, it began a cautious supervision (TIME, Jan. 13, 1936). Last summer it issued a set of fair practice rules. But not until last week was it finally ready to take in hand the o-t-c market as firmly as it already has the exchanges. Through SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' close friend and political backer, Senator Francis T. Maloney of Connecticut, the Commission presented Congress with a bill to regulate over-the-counter trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: SEC to O-T-C | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...predicts that its Diesels will operate at half the cost of gasoline engines and with greater simplicity. Impatient prophets who interpret this as a sign that automobiles with Diesel engines are close at hand will have to burn while General Motors fiddles, according to Boss Kettering. Said he, opening the new plant: "You would not buy a Stradivarius violin and give it to a man to play in Carnegie Hall the same night. We have got a good fiddle, we know that, but we have got to do a lot of practicing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fiddle | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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