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Word: panic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just what extra-curriculum activities engaged Mr. Eaton during the ensuing period is not clear. But something must have kept him busy, for when during the panic of 1907 a member of the congregation made a proposition, he was able to secure some stray public utilities in Iowa. No slow-growing oaks sprang from these little acorns. Within eight years he was estimated to control $2,000,000,000 of invested money in Mid-West gas, power, light and traction companies. Now he is one of the foremost U. S. utility men, has been especially active in developing the United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Strange Passage | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...During my stay in New York I have heard . . . half a dozen great industrial leaders . . . some of whose names are familiar on both sides of the Atlantic . . . treat the recent stockmarket panic as lightly as one might regard an attack of chicken pox on a strong and growing youth. . . . Be a bull on America and you cannot go wrong! is one of their favorite sayings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 17, 1930 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

Pilgrims fled in terror, many fell, panic threatened. "The camel! The camel!" screamed some of the quick-witted. From the rear of the procession a brave cameleer spurred his loose-lipped beast forward to give the conciliatory bite. Fearful of its ears, the mad elephant fled trumpeting to the river, was eventually rounded up by two workmanlike tame elephants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Conciliatory Camel | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

Lincoln, said one of his friends, "had a strong if not terrible passion for women." Nevertheless, he made a loveless marriage with Mary Todd, and was in such a nervous panic on his wedding day that he took refuge in the Illinois Legislature. Later, however, she got her man, for, said she: "Mr. Lincoln is to be President of the United States some day; if I had not thought so, I would not have married him, for you can see he is not pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Made in Germany | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...children fought, kicked, trampled the little ones under foot. Inside the theatre 15-year-old Jimmie McVey, operator's assistant, fought to show children to the side door. He could rescue only 30. Fear-crazed youngsters tried to climb up on the wall gas brackets, out of the panic. The brackets broke, flooded the theatre with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Paisley's Hogmanay | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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