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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street Railway case. In the first the conservatives granted employers an injunction against union stonecutters who refused to work on nonunion stone shipped into their territory. In the second, conservatives ruled that a fare fixed by the State of Maryland, which permitted the railway a 6¼% rate of return, was "confiscatory," that the company was entitled to a return of 7½% or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Solid Man | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...tonight's feature story is headed: 'Thirteen incorrigibles shipped to Siberian stir.' " Siberia, in Michigan stir talk, is Marquette prison. Other items may have a warmer touch. Prisoner So-and-so lost a picture of his wife in the textile factory. Reward for its return: two packs of cigarets. Prisoner Such-and-such will swap a pair of $12 shoes, which don't fit him, for 16 packs of cigarets. Whitsitt used to broadcast complaints and comments on prison regimen, too, but nowadays he has to stick to straight news, paroles and arrivals, personal items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

After completion of the course and the required term of duty, cadets may return to civil life with a bonus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Board Interviews Future Cadets in Army Flying Plan | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...return to normalcy had set in, with several exceptions; bootleg liquor and bathtub gin made their first appearance. The crimson emerged victorious from this game also, with the "foot" in football very evident. Charlie Buell kicked two field goals, Arnold Horween one, for the game's only scores. The next two years saw almost identical games. Yale entered the favorite, emerged beaten 10 to 3, with Charlie Buell and George Owen doing yeoman service for the winners on both occasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summary of last 20 Years of Harvard-Yale Grid Contests | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...Boston Record and the Boston American all this fall have been head being authoritative statements that Harvard will resign and return to Maryland. Economically it was Austin Lake, veteran Boston American Columnist, who has head linesman in the stadium today. Posters along Soldiers Field fluttered to the chill Allston winds the fact that a Boston paper will publish tomorrow an article by Lake on how college football players are doped before big names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time Out | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

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