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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee was unable (because of feeble public response) to raise the rest of the $10,000 expense money promised him. Hopping mad, Captain Walters, who had already received $4,000 from the committee, demanded that they produce the rest "immediately or else-." So saying, he stalked out of the room, vowing never to bring his Bluenose down to the U. S. again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fishermen's Finale | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Aboard the Deutschland the 591 passengers, jarred by an explosion that rippled the floor of the D deck dining room, danced, watched a cinema show, slept while the crew fought ten hours to quell the fire in the cellulose, paper and Christmas-toy cargo. Only casualties were fire fighters who got a taste of smoke; safe in the after hold were 46 tanks of Australian fighting fish, 5,000 Harz Mountain canaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Code of the Sea | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Daily in the dingy caucus room of the old House Office Building railroad presidents laid bare the shambles of railroad economics, railroad labor representatives snarled that labor was not to blame, should not pay the penalty. Meanwhile, the rival groups issued reams of charts, figures and opinions. Apex of the managements' campaign was a nationwide splash of advertising. Apex for labor was a 482-page, clothbound book (each copy stamped with the recipient's name in gold letters) dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt and titled Main Street-Not Wall Street. Last week "Main Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Flat Findings | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

There is a lighting system in Boylston Reading Room which is only equalled by Widener in the amount of eye-strain and glare it produces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GROUCH | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...rumored that Granville Hicks '23, American History Counselor for Adams will debate Thursday against his Leverett classmate Theodore Morrison '23, assistant professor of English, in the Goldcoasters' Common Room. The subject is to deal with social significance in literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inter-House Debating Plan Extended to Include Non-House Men, Commuters in Unit--Hicks Debates Morrison Thursday | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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