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Word: keepers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Frank Dyson, 71, who, as British Astronomer-Royal in charge of the Greenwich Observatory, was long (1910-33) official keeper of the world's time; on a ship bound for South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...honor, equerries in waiting, gentlemen-at-arms, yeomen of the guard, ladies of the bedchamber all about his palace; time has increased the number of the King's retainers. Although there is no longer a court fool, His Majesty still has a court sculptor, an organist, a keeper of the swans, a master of the King's music, a painter and limner, a botanist, a historiographer, some 59 ministers of the gospel for his soul, some 40 medical specialists for his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Civil Servant | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...writing you a line in regards to, Silo, Coughlin. Now just remember I will never buy this magazine again, and I will put my self out of the way, to ask my store keeper never to handle it. I am writing a few letters two your advertisers and ask thim in the name of Christianity two Boycott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Guide's pointers for forming Catholic Action groups: > "The most suitable number for a group is usually about twelve. . . . They are to have a corporate life. They must pray together, study together, act together." > Each group should elect a Leader, a secretary, a treasurer. "There was a purse-keeper amongst the twelve [Apostles]. For the purse-keeper perhaps there had better be special prayers." > A group should arrange early to hear from a priest about the Doctrine of the Mystical Body-which holds that with Christ as the Head, all Christians are members of His mystical body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out Loud | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Major Arthur L. Fletcher, a North Carolina National Guardsman, has the job of Wage & Hour enforcement. He looks like Author Clarence Budington Kelland's country-store keeper, Scattergood Baines, has a round, pink face, a vast capacity for calm, an equally vast distaste for employers who pay starvation wages. Of the hundreds of letters received by him up to last week, 104 were specific enough to be classed as complaints. Of these, 14 have been referred to the 24 field inspectors (one per State) already assigned to the field. As a Southerner who administered North Carolina's industrial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Cats | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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