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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland has lost most of its large customers. Nations have about quit settling with one another, financially. But the bank does a lot of observing and thinking, and last week the most newsworthy observation of its annual report was a carefully documented conclusion that government spending cannot cure Depression. The bank's president, Johan Willem Beyen of The Netherlands, used the U. S. as a prime example of that policy's failure. Main thesis of the report, however, was not so much that U. S. spending since 1933 had been misguided ("natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 3019000000 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...with Count Willy Palaffi (Dennis King), a Budapest banker who, swearing he will marry nothing less than an angel, is forthwith confronted by one (Vera Zorina), wings and all. They wed, but the bride's celestial habit of blurting out the truth stirs up a lot of trouble with the groom's friends and depositors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...required blood test in some states to procure a marriage license he said, "I am against the required blood test because they are going to let a lot by who have syphilis and keep many more who do not have the disease from getting married. The test now given is not conclusive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HINTON URGES BETTER CARE OF SOCIAL ILLS | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

...lot of my classmates were spoiled a bit for a tough world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Guinea Pigs' Verdict | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...orthodox Confucians Author Crow's Confucius may sometimes seem confusing. But they will have to admit that he succeeds in peeling off a lot of the 24-century coating of official lacquer. In fact, as Author Crow portrays him, the huge, ugly wise man emerges with a look as human as Benjamin Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chinese Wise Man | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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