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Word: lumbering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh's emotionally aroused irrational behavior should not be condoned by these United States. When these two legitimately hysterical parents unfortunately reverted to their primitive, elemental desires and relegated civilization's sociological structure to the trash heap as unusable lumber and connived, catered, kowtowed, begged, pleaded, and promised anything & everything within and beyond their means to the so-called underworld, if the cowardly machine-gun order returned their child, they trampled respect for law & order into the dust; exposed other citizens' children to the possibility of kidnapping and ridiculed American police protection in the eyes of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Hardest hit State was Alabama, with 299 killed. Hardest hit town was Northport, Ala., across the Warrior River from Tuscaloosa, where 28 died, six in the collapse of a livery stable whither they had fled for safety. The wind dropped into a lumber yard, picked up a cloud of timber and impaled people with gigantic arrows shot from an invisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: West Wind | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Hamilton counties clapped apprehensively shut while the chase went forward.* After a 72-hour search, the pursuers sighted a huge, dark figure silhouetted against the snow, a man without snowshoes making incredible speed through the deep, stubborn drifts. It was their man. He came to bay inside an abandoned lumber mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wild Giant | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...believe-insurance companies will be obliged to provide health insurance. Fraternal societies have been doing that for their members a long time. It is what churches do when they maintain hospitals in which congregation members get cheaper rates than do the general public. The medical services of railroads, ships, lumber camps, rubber plantations form a kind of group insurance from which all employes benefit and to which they indirectly contribute. Certain tentative modifications of such insurance methods are now functioning. Dr. Wilbur referred to a Los Angeles clinic which provides almost complete medical service to several groups of employed persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Taxes? | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...next two years. $17.50 and a stock dividend of 150 in 1920. The present rate is $4. Typical of a big company's line are such Dixon brands as the green Anglo-Saxon, blue Rapid Writer, Thinex, black Beginners, Lumber Crayon, red-white-&-blue Uncle Sam, buff & blue Bicentennial, purple Violo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pencils | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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