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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time Killing. Unable to kill the Treaty, "Captain" Johnson killed time instead by a great hue and cry for all the confidential papers leading up to and through the London parley. He was indignant when Secretary of State Stimson sent him only paraphrases of these papers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trials of a Treaty | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

The fulminating affliction of the food, drug & insecticide administration of the Department of Agriculture, the "scandal" of ergot, came up again last week. Walter Gilbert Campbell, director of the department's regulatory work took it before the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Forestry. He wished to clear the administration of Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Again, Ergot | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

That Coachman Kuerten was caught resulted from his softheartedness in not actually killing some nine women whom he attacked, merely pricking and slashing them lightly with his penknife and letting them go. One such victim recognized and later denounced him to the completely baffled police. His wife sobbed last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vampire Coachman | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

The threat of a Democrat filibuster against the Senate's final acceptance of a patchwork measure loomed when Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison exclaimed: "It'll be a long time before you get this Bill. I'd want nothing better than the responsibility for killing this legislation."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Deadlock Broken | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

Petal-of-the-Rose was the unwanted daughter of the learned, sensual, hard-hearted aristocrat Ou Tsong Ling. Of no account in her father's eyes, she led a secluded and boring existence shut up in the women's apartments until the Japanese, in revenge for the killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lickerish Lacquer | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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