Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Barkley of Kentucky: "I key-noted Roosevelt into the White House in 1932 and 1936, and I might possibly do it again...
...issues. By 1935, when U. P. & L. debentures sold as low as 20¼? on the dollar, Floyd Odium's big investment trust. Atlas Corp., bought up enough of them to gain control in a complex deal with RFC. which had its hands on Harley Clarke's key holding company (TIME, July 22, 1935). Harley Clarke was soon shoved out of office and in last week's poker game this toppled tycoon sat quietly on whatever cards he may still hold...
...Social Work" used to be regarded as a career for unmarriageable females, male fuddy-duddies and a few selfless souls like Jane Addams. Today professional social workers, headed by Harry Hopkins, are key people in Government's multiplex Relief-dispensing machine. When 3,000 of them met last week in Seattle for the 65th National Conference of Social Work, what they said, and what was said to them, was news...
...Arab world - from Asia Minor to Aden, from Tigris to Nile - there was dismay over this latest of a long list of betrayals by the Big Powers. For Turkey, former master of the Arabs, was clearly about to gain, with the tacit consent of the French, a valuable economic key to Arab nations...
...that time which neutral observers considered a "cosmic clearance"-i.e., a victory for Compton (TIME, Jan. 13, 1936). By that time most cosmic ray workers were speaking in terms of particles, and photons were dropping rapidly out of the picture. Among the mass of evidence for particles, one key point is that the fact that they respond-as electrically inert photons could not-to Earth's magnetic field, showing variations by latitude...