Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University maintenance department, the word "Yale" is inscribed on the locks of 70 doors in Randolph Hall, now part of Adams House. The new installation were made following the discovery three months ago by Charles R. Apted '06, superintendent of caretakers, that the old Russwin locks would pen to almost no key, a situation which caused confusion to bewildered students returning late at night...
...same page, in the next column, in a character sketch of Congressman La Guardia from TIME'S own pen, a sentence reads: "His chief weakness is that he has no responsibility except to himself and his own conscience...
...first volume of what is to be an annual series depicting the foreign relations of the United States during the preceding year, the agile and internationally poised pen of Mr. Lippmann has put on paper a translation of the words which have been in the writing by moving fingers throughout the world during the hectic 12 months which went to make up the year 1931. Prepared almost contemporaneously with the events which are discussed within its covers, Mr. Lippmann's book has been published with the admitted purpose of orienting somewhat public judgment of happenings which have not faded from...
...present spurious coins are of such perfect impressions that identification by the design is impossible for the layman. Due to lead content, however, their color tends to be darker than that of the true tokens and they can be cut more easily with a pen-knife. Anyone attempting to pass a counterfeit coin is liable to immediate arrest...
...unceremonious squiggle of President Hoover's pen last week made the Glass-Steagall bill law. Its enactment sent a strong new quiver of hope and confidence through the nation's banking nerves. Now the Federal Reserve System could lend money to its members (in groups of five) on assets which before were ineligible for rediscount. Now it could substitute U. S. securities for gold and commercial paper as coverage for its currency. With the gold thus released, it could withstand foreign raids on the dollar or print more paper money...