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Word: potter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Girdler [Chairman of Republic Steel] is a heavily armed monomaniac with murderous tendencies, who has gone berserk. Potter [William C. Potter,* chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co.] and Grace [President Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel] have turned him loose upon the unarmed steel workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Steel Tempers | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

Robert D. Mitchell, Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota State '32, assistant in Sanitary Engineering; Roy M. Seideman, Long Island City, New York, Long Island '36, assistant in Vital Statistics; Howard A. Potter Jr., Cambridge, instructor in Chemistry; William W. A. Johnson '36, Cambridge, assistant in Astronomy; William T. Pecora 2d, Newark, New Jersey, Princeton '33, assistant in Petrography...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INCREASE NUMBERS OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...flight from a tedious suitor in New York, Fashion Designer Kay Denham (Claudette Colbert) picks up two personable Americans in a Paris bar. One is Gene Anders (Robert Young) who hoping to gratify his inclination for casual romance, suggests a trip to Switzerland. The other is his friend George Potter (Melvyn Douglas) who, also in love with Kay and aware that Gene already has a wife, joins the junket as chaperon. In Switzerland Kay and her companions have time to try everything from fancy skating, for which Claudette Colbert reveals unsuspected talent, to falling off a bob-sled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...Cahn '39, Frederic S. Coolidge '40, Vinton A. Dearing '40, Richard S. Fogelman '40. Paul L. Franken '40, Nelson Gildersleeve '40, Israel J. Graff '38, David L. Grove '40, J. H. Lindstrom 1G. Raymond H. Norweb, Jr. '40, Jack M. Perlman '40, Rupert W. Pole '40, George E. Potter '40, William C. Rittman '39, Isadore N. Rosenberg '40, Thomas F. Seymour '40, Alan H. Shapley '40, Douglas R. Sears '40, David R. Simboll '40, J. L. Stuart 1L, Elkan Turk, Jr. '89, Walter I. Wardwell '40, Leonard D. Warren, Jr. '40, R. G. Wayland 1G. C. M. Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Sodality Elects 26 Men to Aged Organization | 5/27/1937 | See Source »

...Varro would represent in modern Germany is anybody's guess, but Terence, the egotistical potter who briefly became an Emperor, is a dead ringer for Hitler. "To be an Emperor and a Leader meant nothing more to him than demonstrations, great public shows, parades, new buildings, brilliant festivals, power, glamour and above all speeches. When confronted with political and economic problems he withdrew with a dignified shake of the head into his divine majesty, convinced that if serious difficulties arose his inner voice would at once show him the right way." And to those who think Germans are happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nero's Double | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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