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Word: restfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chatman Hawley of Oregon, complained the plan should not "be even considered." Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison commented sarcastically on the "fretful condition of this newborn sugar baby." "Certainly," said he, "the sleepless nights Senator Smoot must have spent with this crying curiosity . . . entitle him to a rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Sugar: 6 cents per Ib. | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...broke windows, seized knives and forks. Ordered back to their cells, they bolted for the prison yard where they screamed curses, milled about frantically, became altogether unruly. When a fire hose failed to break them, guards opened fire with riot guns. One convict was killed, three fell wounded, the rest retreated to the cell blocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: At Leavenworth | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Last week Toledo politicians were meditating on the possible significance of another event. Coming home to rest, also to obtain an absentee's ballot for the coming election. Postmaster General Brown found his new, freshly-painted model front-gate mail box bowled over, destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Toledo Thimble Race | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Association's last meeting. A doctor must spend one or more years at a hospital before he can be reckoned reliable for general practice. But there are only seven good Negro hospitals in the country and they can accommodate only 50 internes yearly. Practically none of the rest can get posts in general hospitals. So they must get work in dubious private hospitals or sanatoriums or else start practicing unprepared. Their medical inexperience makes patients distrust them. The patients do with home remedies or go to white doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Schools for Negroes | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

John Pierpont Morgan, wearied by the strain of the Reparations meeting (TIME, Feb. n et seq.), sailed for a six-month rest at "Wall Hall," his English home in Hertfordshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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