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Word: scares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends, the answer to that is the record of what we have done. (Applause.) It was this Administration which saved the system of private profit, the system of free enterprise, after it had been dragged to the brink of ruin by these same leaders who now try to scare you. (Applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Prosperity Rampant | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

These premature reports created a genuine European scare because last week inside the British Foreign Office diplomats of 27 nations indulged in an unprecedented 7-½-hour brawl, conducted with a fury which made the worst believable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Diplomatic Dogfight | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Minnesota is usually stronger in the second half of a season as well as of a game. Stimulated by last week's scare, it is now, according to most experts, an even-money bet to get through its fourth successive undefeated season. To do so, after Michigan, Minnesota must beat Purdue, Northwestern, Iowa, Texas and Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Minnesota Miracle | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...month both sides have been bickering about a new agreement. The unions demanded higher wages, maintenance of the six-hour day, refused to arbitrate. President Bridges of the International Longshoremen's Association set about doing his best to involve the Atlantic Coast in a nationwide dock-strike to scare shipowners into accepting his terms. To his chagrin, fortnight ago Atlantic longshoremen reached a tentative compromise agreement with their employers for a slight raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Commanders & Commissioners | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Sneered Flyer Merrill: "I admit that the situation . . . was such as to scare an inexperienced flyer. . . . Safety required lower altitude, at which I immediately aimed. To my consternation Richman emptied a tank against my protest and wanted to send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transatlantic Tradition | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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