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Word: initialers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The tariff rate would not fix the excise tax. During an initial marketing period after the bill's passage, the following would become "fair maximum prices":

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Billion Dollar Bonus | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Scene of The Last Adam is New Winton, a Connecticut village complete with selectmen, gossips, bootlegger, post-office politicians, curmudgeons, lady of the manor, puritans, pagans. Author Cozzens introduces the strands of New Winton's life through the neat modern medium of the local telephone exchange, where the operators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dr. Bull | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

Announcement of these initial loans last week, five months after the system was created, did not come in time to halt a concerted Senate drive to wipe the Home Loan Bank Board out of existence. Its record of inaction outraged Senator Borah who week before offered a sweeping repealer. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Loan & Repealer | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

In New York, Lexicographer Frank Horace Vizetelly announced he had granted official recognition in his Standard Dictionary to the initial-composed "protogram" and the telescope word, both popular in Russia. A protogram: NEP (New Economic Policy). A telescope word: Nabisco (National Biscuit Co.). Commented Dr. Vizetelly: "The newly-liberated Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 26, 1932 | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

Harvard's first skiing team will make its initial entry in the field of intercollegiate winter sports when it competes in the College Week contests at Lake Placid in the last week of December. The Crimson ski-runners will be entered only in the slalom and downhill races to be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SKIERS ENTER INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

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