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Word: intervales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cadet Stagg's desire to get off the Ranger was something easily comprehensible to the whole Pacific Fleet. He had just won the puzzler's equivalent of first prize in the Irish-sweepstakes, had beaten 2,000,000 other hopefuls for the $100,000 first prize in Old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Old Gold Winner | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Last week at the foot of barrier No. 5, the House Rules Committee, Wages & Hours lay as dead as a roast chicken. One of the most potent of Congressional Committees. Rules must say, in effect, "Pass on," before any bill can reach the floor of the House. If Rules refuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Roast Chicken | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Star witness when the Committee resumed hearings last week after a month's interval, during which its chairman, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler, was busy with the Court fight, was Broker Robert R. Young of Manhattan. Most sensational development of the week was that 40 year-old Broker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: $15,000 Soap Wrappers | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Diplomatically there was only one reason why Belgium's 43-year-old Premier had called on Franklin Roosevelt: courtesy. He had come to the U. S. to receive an honorary degree from Princeton University where 16 years ago, as a graduate student from Louvain, he studied economics. Certainly he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Visiting Week | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

Not illness, strike, riot, civil commotion or act of God, not even the profit motive was responsible for the long delay in Senator Bill Smathers' taking office. During the interval he was drawing $500 a year as a State Senator in New Jersey instead of $10,000 as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tardy | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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