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Word: indianas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Described by Professor Sutherland, now a member of the faculty of the University of Indiana, as handsome, attractive, and possessing the "initiative, ingenuity and abilities that are characteristic of leaders," Thief Conwell seems alternately proud and ashamed of his profession, was probably most sincere when he wrote: "It involves as much hard work as any other business. There is little thrill about it. . . . What the hell could anyone find to like about stealing, working hard all the time, always being likely to land in the can, paying over to the coppers and the fixers everything he gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Professional Viewpoint | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Having announced that PWA and RFC would make no further commitments, he was visited by Indiana's New Deal Senator, Sherman Minton. Mr. Minton left the White House, telling reporters ruefully: "I asked for a hell of a lot of PWA money and didn't get a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Balanced Thinking | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Figures made public by the Dean's office last week show the comparison of this year's enrollment of the Freshman Class with that of 1933. The 15 states in the National Scholarship area, including Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, and Louisiana, had in 1933 an enrollment of 103, or 10.5 per cent of the total of the Freshman class that entered that year, as compared to 176, or 19 per cent this year. The foreign countries and the states other than those in New England, New York, New Jersey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPARATIVE FIGURES ON YARDLINGS GIVEN | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

States showing gains over last year are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virgina, and Wisconsin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPARATIVE FIGURES ON YARDLINGS GIVEN | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...merchandise. Said he: "Where's the stuff I ordered?" The clerk who stepped forward was not Hurd but Walter Walsh, a crack G-man and specialist in trick shots. Walsh's job was to signal 13 more G-men, 30 Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came in. As Walsh moved to pull a cord which would, set a signal in the window, Dalhover realized that he had walked into a trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tough Customers | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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