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Word: purgee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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From those misty beginnings down to Admiral Byrd's first Antarctic junket ("A splendidly equipped expedition") the long tale of man's investigation of his terres trial abode is unfolded in the 338 pages of A History of Exploration, by Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, him self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Herodotus to Byrd | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Two doses of castor oil gravely injured a U. S. Army doctor's career last week. Lieut. Colonel Bertram Foster Duckwall of Fort Clayton, Canal Zone ordered an oil purge for an enlisted man with an injured foot. Another soldier suffering from appendicitis received a similar dose. Seriously injudicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Purgation | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

Last week for the first time the 73rd Congress turned Indian-giver on President Roosevelt. Last year, in the first flush of the New Deal, it had delegated to him enormous executive power to purge the veterans' pension roll and readjust government wages as a means of balancing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Indian-Giving | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

(3 of 4) he would have nothing to do with the Army's airmail operations, Hero Lindbergh was quite willing to tell Congress what he thought about the contract cancellations and pending legislation to restore the mail job to private companies. The morning he was to appear before the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Standstill | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

There has never been any public investigation of labor unions or their methods, what they do with their money and how throughout the country here and there, racketeers have got control and the principal officers of the American Federation of Labor either have been afraid or unwilling to purge their...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

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