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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outlining the chief provisions of the act, killed by a narrow margin in the House last March, Pettee recommended, its adoption to remedy the tangle in the Executive department, which he likened to "a thousand room apartment house designed and built one room at a time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Passage of Reorganization Bill Urged By Pettee as Needed Executive Reform | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

...last week a southeastern Kentucky farmer named O. E. Taylor stood up in the Federal court room at London and addressed the judge. Farmer Taylor said that back in 1929 he worked for General Motors, hurt his right arm. The arm still aches at times, and when it aches Mr. Taylor hates corporations. Therefore, he did not feel that he should sit as a juror in the case about to be tried. In the same jury box briefly occupied by Mr. Taylor, Factory Employe Ralph Mays was asked about his wife, said "She's a Payne from Goose Creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Case of Mary-Helen | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...dank, one-room Chicago tenement, agents of the board of health last fortnight discovered a pair of starving, premature twins, a boy and a girl who did not look alike. While hospital nurses washed and fed them, health officers last week tried to get their mother, a woman of 36, two years a widow, to clarify a complex situation. She had already had twelve children. Eight of those, ranging from 18 to two years of age, were living. She could not tell whether the father of her latest pair was one Luis Ersing, 24. or one Lanzarin Timoteo, 26, both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fathers and Twins | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will give his 26th annual spring reading in the Upper Common Room of the Union next Sunday at 7 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Copey Reads | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

Copey will read from the King James Bible and from Kipling. Owing to the limited capacity of the Upper Common Room, it is asked that only Freshmen attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Copey Reads | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

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