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Word: pinned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately after the Bond Club luncheon, he got news that sent him and Mrs. Hurley fairly flying back to Washington. Their daughter Ruth, 9, had swallowed a Red Cross pin. (Damage: zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: According to St. Patrick | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...many angels can dance on the head of a pin? How can a prosecutor prove intent to violate the Prohibition Amendment? Dancing on a legal pinhead for the past four years have been the manufacturers of fermentable grape concentrates. Federal agents have been able to count them, but not until last month were they able to threaten them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Old Vine-Glo in New Bottles | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No 2. Haydn Allegro Andante o pin tosto allegretto Menuetto Finale (Vivace assai) "Pastorale"Ernest Bloch Quartet In E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 Beethoven Allegro Molto adagio Allegretto Finale (Presto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRADIVARIUS QUARTET GIVES CONCERT TONIGHT | 11/13/1931 | See Source »

...Gandhi watch is jerked from a fold of the Mahatma's first shawl (the one next his skin) to which he secures his large ("dollar") watch by a large ("baby's") safety pin. In England St. Gandhi wears a second and often a third shawl. The three cover him tentwise when he sits crosslegged, showing only his big toes, small hands and birdlike poll topped with stiff black & white hairs clipped to a length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Ghandi's Watch Pocket | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, $8,000 might be the price of a small cabin cruiser such as he sails on Biscayne Bay. For his young brother Nicholas ("Nikko") Saltus Ludington it might buy a few new mounts for his large stable of hunters. For either brother, it would be hardly more than pin money. But the $8,073.61 profit which showed on a balance sheet upon Brother Townsend's desk last week was as exciting to him as a great fortune. It was the first year's net earning of Ludington Line, plane-per-hour passenger service between New York, Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: $+G4748073.61 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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