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Word: kneeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern policy of nonrecognition of governments established by force. Then President-elect Roosevelt made a final trip to his dentist, found his favorite (fishing rod and was bidden Godspeed at Jersey City's Communipaw Terminal by Mayor Frank Hague as he left for Washington and his second knee-to-knee conference with President Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: It's Candy' | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...have no intention of advancing a foot beyond the Great Wall," said Japanese General Suzuki who was at that moment sitting well inside the Great Wall in Shanhaikwan at 40° below zero. "We have nothing to be ashamed of. The Chinese must come to us on bended knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: On Bended Knee | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Having blasted away at each other all week through an amplifying system which made every murmur an angry shout, the labor executives' committee and the railway executives adjourned from the smoky ballroom to Room No. 13. Conspicuously not present at the knee-to-knee parley was fatherly President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the B. & 0. who, with amiable President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, patched together the existing wage arrangement. And although present, President Robertson was no longer the voice of railway labor. New leaders were General Manager William Francis Thiehoff of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: From Room No. 13 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...them and of going on their way unmoved. If only they could see into the hearts of the editors they should see there the genuine desire to uplift youth and help it traverse as painlessly as possible, the rocky path of adolescence. The editors plead and beg on bended knee for a little more seemliness in campus dress, and the campus goes on oblivious to all criticism, leaving them to listen to the hollow trumpeting of the nation's press. After all, the News belongs to the student body and they should, by rights, pay some attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/10/1932 | See Source »

...Government. , -." Lord Chancellor Sankey, in full robe and wig, advanced to the throne and on slightly bended knee presented to George V the King's Speech, written every year by the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Beefeating | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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