Word: label
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worcester, Mass., the County Jail distributed to prisoners a shipment of paper matches, aluminum grey & black, with the institution's label neatly printed on the cover...
...cold as the Brandenburger Tor, has been, the label frankly attached to many members of the department. Men steeped in learning and recognized as authorities in their field may often, through no tangible fault of their own, leave a group of students completely unmoved. Here in its bluntest form is Harvard's increasingly troublesome dilemma: scholarship and teaching, may they somehow get together! The tutors as well as the instructors have been hit on this score, and some steps must be taken by the German department to recognize this ever more vital aspect of instruction...
...Simeon put pressure on Kansas' Governor to run in California. In a spot was Mr. Landon. To run would offend the Hoovers, would expose Landon to possible defeat by Borah, who had the support of many a follower of Senator Hiram Johnson, would cause Landon to be labeled the Hearst candidate-a label that Governor Landon has been trying to avoid since last December when William Randolph Hearst in his private car rode uninvited into Topeka and publicly put his hand upon the Landon shoulder. Not to run would be equally dangerous for Governor Landon. It threatened to drive...
...What about the gallon of Bacardi you got last week?" asked a knowing member of the press as he examined the label on the expensive stogy. "Smiling Jim" merely smiled again and adroitly changed the subject by slapping a silver dollar on the table...
...went to try swimming across. Sturdily, since he was a good swimmer with long staying power, he dog-paddled along. Suddenly, he looked to his right, and there rushing down on him was a great big stick of timber. In large, red letters on the side was the label, "Dictatorial Rowers of the President over All Foreign Trade". If another log, called "Export Interests" had not suddenly appeared and bumped the big log away, the little child night have been drowned. As it was the collision of the two caused a foaming wave of Protest, and as his mouth...