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Word: liquidating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treatment. . . . Mrs. MacDonald, the head nurse, told me that they had no history of the case, did not even so much as know what was wrong with the boy and made no effort to find out. She told me they put him to rest in bed, gave him whatever liquid nourishment he was able to swallow, and trusted in God and prayer. It's a case of gross ignorance or insanity, I don't know which. . . . It is an outrage against civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Weird Cult | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Click. The company had been offered the use of liquefied butane∙ for running the new train. According to experience of the rival Southern Pacific which has been trying out liquid butane, the synthetic fuel cuts fuel costs two to three cents a mile, lubricating costs one to two cents a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Green Ball | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

Deals. But after the partners have invested their depositors' money in safe and liquid securities, they have still their capital (net worth) which they can employ in deals. The capital of the House of Morgan amounts to less than $100,000,000 (it passed that mark in 1929, was $119,000,000 at the close of that year, stood at $53,000,000 at the close of 1932). Morgan deals are of two kinds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Now It Is Told | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...which lasted from early morn till evening. Like many college students, proud of their ability in classroom foreign languages, a few were anxious to show their knowledge of English in conversing with me: the result was that I spent the day guzzling with them, and cemented our friendship with liquid mortar. And very pleased I was to receive an invitation to attend a secret Mensuren on the coming Friday, July 20, 1925. I saw nine duels and was as tense during the performance as any of the contestants. Each duel consisted of four sets; a set was made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1933 | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...takes the part of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner who finds himself in danger of having to execute himself. Yum-Yum, one of his wards, is Hizi Koyke. Her suitor, the Mikado's wandering minstrel son, is played by Roy Cropper, a young man with a pleasingly liquid tenor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revival: May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

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