Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stolen from parking lot and stripped inside...
...over. Swept along on last month's adjournment tide, a bill appropriating the money to pay his Navyites had slipped through Congress, been signed by President Roosevelt. Figuring that his crusade had cost him about $20,000, Lawyer Mann declared: "It was a hobby. I'd have spent a lot more if I'd had it. It's cheaper than yachts and booze and women; and no headaches." Lawyer Mann's triumph was only a little dimmed by the fact that just one of the 1,377 original claimants turned up to collect his pay. Nor did he feel lost...
...fellow citizens over the radio: "You are being told of rare economic creations for which, perhaps, we cannot find a name-something never seen before on land or sea! . . . Zealots who obscurely think the printing press can take the place of hard work and thrift have a lot to say. . . . This is no time for unhelpful condemnation of the plans of our political opponents, and yet . . . my natural restraint breaks down before the clear need to warn the country...
...Seniors will soon be in: What's done can't be undone; health means a lot. And after all it's the people you know that counts. Just hit the generals for a good pass and, well, a lot can happen in a year. The world wants men not marks...
...special prize for "the most artistic" foreign film of the year went to Columbia Pictures' No Greater Glory (TIME, April 23, 1934). Adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel (The Paul Street Boys) about the warfare of two children's gangs for possession of a vacant lot which municipal authorities eventually take away from both, the cinema is a brilliant allegory suggesting that war is childish, futile and unpardonable...