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Word: rashly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Texas that tumbled the price of crude oil to 10? per bbl. in 1931. It was East Texas that made President Roosevelt put the oil industry under the Secretary of the Interior. And it was East Texas that incited the gasoline price wars which broke out like a rash all over the land last week. They are pumping oil in East Texas now instead of just piping it off but that paradise of the little fellow is merrily producing at least 100,000 bbl. of oil daily in excess of all allotments- all "hot"' oil. The retail price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fizzling Oil | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...that the years since 1929 had in general treated the five sisters alike-bringing a greater scholastic seriousness and independence, a simpler and more self-reliant social life, an easing of campus restrictions, a virtually doubled enrollment in economics, social studies and fine arts. But he would have been rash as well as obtuse if he had forthwith concluded that the sisters are all alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Five Sisters | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

Concordia-a pleasant name for any town. It sounded particularly pleasant to utility men last week, worried night & day as they are about where the rash of public ownership will next break out on the body politic. Missouri Public Service Co. has a power plant at Concordia, Mo. The city fathers applied for a PWA loan-grant to build a municipal plant. In a Kansas City Federal court the private power company promptly prayed for an injunction, ordering the town government to desist and refrain from its purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Concordia Case | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...President Wulff, himself a judicious oldster of 62, blamed such victorian decadents as the late Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde and Charles Pierre Baudelaire for leading Paris on to rash absinthe

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Brutish Wormwood | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Japan's rebuttal to Comrade Rudy last week was drastic if not hysterical. Tokyo papers broke out in a rash of charges that Soviet employes of C. E. R. have been burning themselves out of their own railway stations, wrecking their own trains to spite Manchukuo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Wild East Destruction | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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