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Word: planking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There will probably be a third party in 1936. The next President will be a man who knows what it is to work in the sun 14 hours a day. That man will be able to walk a two by four plank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Georgia Cracker | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...spent 14 years wheedling money from charwomen and millionaires. For it he has sacrificed many things, among them the liberal principles he once held. His Board of Trustees is packed with the reactionary industrialists who gave him money. One liberal professor after another has walked Pitt's plank. Ralph E. Turner was the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tower of Trouble | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...newshawk asked bluntly whether it was a fact that Mr. Wallace had sided with Frank to make Peek walk the plank, now sided with Davis to make Frank walk the plank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Exeunt, Dead March | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...face the Senate vote was a smashing rebuff to President Roosevelt, the second major Congressional defeat of his Administration. But had the President really been heart & soul behind the Court? The wisest answer seemed to be: No. A Court plank had been in his party's platform. It offered an easy means of bolstering his weak foreign record. As much as anything else, defeat had been due to careless White House strategy. Because the President was not ready with his Senate program, opposition to the World Court had had two full weeks to marshal its forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Up Senate, Down Court | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...upright was made, Mr. Koehler was positive, from a missing plank in Hauptmann's attic floor. Old nail holes in the upright fitted perfectly into place over the attic floor joists. Its growth rings matched an adjoining floor plank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: New Jersey v. Hauptmann (Cont'd) | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

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