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Word: poker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goodwin Corp. has not sought and does not list cigarets, cigars, wines, liquors, cocktail shakers, roulette wheels, poker sets, bust developers, contraceptives or other articles objectionable to churchgoers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Good News Broadcast | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

Orchids to your independent attitude in forsaking an all too common and deeply regretted "aim to please" policy. Twice this week you have chosen to handle a "hot poker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Answer Requested | 1/11/1935 | See Source »

...smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions is a cheap (about $1.50), convenient bed in a place where they can circulate from room to room swapping stories, dickering deals, playing poker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Legislators at Lansing | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...Played with a special deck of 100 cards, each suit representing an industry, it was supposed to combine education in market technique with many of the charms of poker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Nobelmen | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...Moscow last week Comrade Alexander Alexandrovitch Troyanovsky, poker-faced Soviet Ambassador to the U. S., was surrounded by an eager court of U. S. manufacturers. They hoped at last to get the huge Red orders expected one year ago when President Roosevelt recognized the Soviet Union (TIME, Nov. 27). In Washington the State Department's attitude, according to Assistant Secretary of State R. Walton Moore, was one of "strong hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Old Bolsheviks, New Credits | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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