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Word: pleases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beauteous Lisa is a humble stenographer in Hamid's office. She hates Kravnik. Her brother Primo, an ambitious young architect (temporarily unemployed), likes Kravnik. On the floor below them lives a mysterious Albanian. He hates Kravnik. And he has a really first-hand reason: as a baby he lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kravnik Capers | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

Four pleas and plans laid before four Interstate Commerce Commissioners last week by truckmen and railroaders sounded as if the U. S. railroad and trucking industries were either getting ready for a great consolidation feast or a grim competitive fight.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Feast or Fight? | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Although in the case of the first five Houses mentioned, extra names may be added to the ballot through petitions signed by ten or more residents of the House, usually few names are added, since the general attitude of the students is one of apathy towards the elections. In the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE ELECTIONS | 5/6/1936 | See Source »

Party lines broke, however, when 30 hours before Hauptmann was scheduled to die on Jan. 17-New Jersey's Court of Pardons, a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U. S. Supreme Court having denied his pleas for clemency or delay- Governor Hoffman granted him a 30...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Hoffman Case | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

The reasons for the petition may be found in the somewhat peculiar situation of Eastern lines generally. Their greatest carrying burden is over expensive short hauls, a major proportion of their charges are extremely high. Since the task of the I. C. C. is one of reconstruction, rather than destruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECONSTRUCTION RATES | 4/7/1936 | See Source »

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