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Word: lock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come to represent something new to liberals. Besides voting on the liberal side in pre-New Deal cases, he wrote the dissenting (liberal) opinion in the New York Minimum Wage Law case, and declined to go so far as the majority in throwing out the Guffey Coal Act lock, stock & barrel. Yet he is definitely in liberal disfavor, not so much because of his anti-New Deal votes in other cases, as for something they sense in his attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Big Debate | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Moving with all the precision that will be required to end the General Motors strike, minions of the Maintenance division quietly removed the door from University A, lock, offending slot, and all, and took it to their laboratories for study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foiled Theft Brings Prompt Action; Foolproof Mail Box Finally Installed | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...door had a Yale lock and letters went into a row of little boxes at the bottom of each staircase each with its own combination lock. My combination I never knew, which didn't matter as I had no letters; but I had great fun "listening for the tumblers" as in the detective stories, though without success. Maybe the whole thing is provided as an intellectual exercise for the undergraduates who have to discover the combination before they can get their letters. Anyway it must be much more fun for all than mere letter boxes, though not noticeably more efficient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Student Visiting at Tercentenary Finds Harvard's Seven Houses Similar to Those at Cambridge University | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

...much more difficult to read. But she had been getting sleepy for ever so long now, with one page looking just like the next, so she didn't see that it at all mattered. In her haste to get her books earlier in the evening Alice had forgotten to lock the door, and now the Red Queen, shaking all over and looking very angry walked into the room and stood over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

LICKS CHAMP," a shot of a husky dancer clamping a leg lock on a wrestler's neck; "SHIP WRECKED!" with a preview of drowned bodies cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Look Out | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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