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Word: keys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arising pale but well from his bed of flu, Franklin Roosevelt last week headed south for his first vacation since Thanksgiving. His favorite cruiser Houston awaited him off Key West to take him out to the navy's game of defending the Panama Canal (TIME, Feb. 20). The Presidential fishing rods were already on the Houston. Lest citizens suppose he was a frivolous President, Mr. Roosevelt packed into his last two days ashore several statements calculated to keep the country thinking well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Vigilant Fisherman | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Major Sargent stated, "The team has been hampered by illness and scholastic difficulties throughout the season, but I believe it will make a fine showing against Yale despite the loss of two of its key...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Rule Favorite in Second Polo Game With Crimson at 9:30 O'Clock Tonight in Armory | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

Swift developments in this key country of southeast Europe, where conditions have been turbulent for a month, were expected to have an important, though as yet uncertain, bearing on the struggle for dominance of Europe between the totalitarian and democratic blocs...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...closed system, it will be passed around until no further energy exchange is possible-that is, the system will reach "thermodynamic equilibrium." Mathematically working out the conditions for equilibrium in mixed substances, Gibbs arrived at certain abstruse but beautifully logical rules of energy exchange. His work thus held the key to the efficient handling of mixed substances in industry. Gibbs had no interest in technology, and technologists took quite a while to uncover, understand and apply his work to their own problems. Now that this has been done, however, the Gibbs rules have enormously facilitated and cheapened a great variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unknown Equilibrist | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Benjamin Bucklin '42 discovered a new way of settling competition in an affair of the heart yesterday when he placed Samuel Worthen '42 in handcuffs and threw the key under the subway train at Ashmont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Wins Girl by Handcuffing Rival and Throwing Key in Subway | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

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