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Word: raiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Mass, followed by a merry feast in the small hours. Last week, as a special dispensation, the State, which has forbidden midnight Masses since the war broke, authorized them for Christmas Eve. In Paris, priests were required to limit attendance in their churches to the capacity of available air-raid shelters nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...frequently to the Finance Minister, very seldom to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In the evening he occasionally gives a stag dinner (his wife and two children live in Peking), otherwise reads something light and goes to bed-sometimes to be wakened in the middle of the night by an air raid alarm. The Embassy has a stout dugout, but a direct hit would demolish it, Nelson Johnson, and U. S.-Japanese relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Excellency in a Ricksha | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...insure that the consecrated Host shall not be subjected to indignity or outrage, the Catholic Church has legislated in great detail. Last week the Primate of England's Catholics, Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, reminded his priests of what they should do in case of an air raid during Mass. If the Host has not been consecrated, said His Eminence, the Mass should be stopped at once, to be resumed later if possible. But if the consecration has been performed, the priest must consume the Host and wine, then end the Mass. Should the Host be lost during a raid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Air Raids | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...honest, astute, noncompetitive handling. Since the Consumers Power stock issue is small potatoes to any underwriter, there was a shrewd suspicion that Mr. Eaton was really aiming at the bond issue (on which the banking fee at 2% would be more than $500,000), rather than at making a raid on Commonwealth & Southern such as he made on the Insull empire ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Note: The CRIMSON erred in giving the impression that there had been a police raid on the Holyoke Bookshop. It has since been learned that, instigated by patriotic Councilor Michael A. Sullivan, a plain clothes policeman visited the shop but found nothing objectionable. The Holyoke Bookshop is moving next month to new quarters on Plympton Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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