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Word: sag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Premier van Zeeland saw Belgium's money sag sadly on foreign exchange last week to the lowest value touched since he officially devalued last March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Man's Work | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

...moment the Blue Eagle was struck down, some Los Angeles grocers began offering "loss leaders" at 25% or more below cost. Their more conservative competitors called protest meetings, loudly thumped for a continuance of "fair practices." The cut-raters stood their ground and all grocery prices began to sag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Safeway Strategy | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

With the imprisonment of the captors, the Gettle story was the first to sag. Not so the case of June Robles, who all over the U. S. continued to hold a commanding position in the news with the Nantucket lightship disaster, the Chaco War, the drought, the Pennsylvania primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Snatch Stories | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...time after the President's instructions to the London Conference the trace of Mr. Morgenthau's and Professor Warren's influence was not obvious. But in October the exchange value of the dollar began to mount. At the same time commodity prices started to sag badly (in accord with Dr. Warren's theory), had to be propped up by large Government purchases of wheat. On Oct. 22 the President over the radio announced that the RFC would begin setting its own price for gold. A week later when that step had failed materially to reduce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Teachers & Pupils | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...English, Oriental and Modern English, a combination of Old English and Oriental. There are more than 250 variations of the three strains, with names like Crazy Snakes, Kansas Sluggers, Gordon Games, Mortgage Lifters, Meal Tickets. Roughhouse Blues. Cockers also belong to three main types. In such pits as "The Sag" in Chicago, disreputable cockers hold ill-conducted contests between second-rate birds. A larger class of cockers are poultry breeders, farmers, country folk who raise gamefowl for profit, pit them at well-advertised meets such as the Orlando tournament in Florida. The third class of cockers are wealthy individuals like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cocks & Cockers | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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