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Word: sends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit's sit-down epidemic last winter, Thelma Goldman went to a nearby beauty shop, found the two attending operators eager to join a union. Explaining that U. A. W. was for automobile workers, not beauticians, Miss Goldman obligingly telephoned the local A. F. of L. headquarters to send up an organizer. Quite willing, the A. F. of L. man only wanted to know one thing: who owned the beauty shop. Proudly the beauticians told Miss Goldman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Titters for Jitters | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...horses in Belgium. Whenever the League finds a British Warhorse and has enough money on hand, they buy it for about $100, take it to the League's stables in. Brussels, put the horse to grass for perhaps the first time in 18 years, later send it to Britain to be "pensioned off" in some country paddock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Rescued Heroes | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...House of Commons was ripe for the deft amendment he proposed. This was that the House, instead of approving the Government's proposal to partition Palestine and submitting this act of the Mother of Parliaments to the "yes" or "no" decision of the League of Nations, should simply send the Government proposals to Geneva. Thus, if the League says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Duchess of Windsor, years ago in Washington when she was the wife of an impecunious U. S. Navy officer, used to send over her seamstress to copy Mrs. Gordon's gowns, by permission, when the latter would return from Paris with another trunkful. Of aristocratic Dutch descent, the U. S. Minister's wife, nee Vandergrift, has many friends, some relatives in The Netherlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETHERLANDS-HAITI: Instead of the Marines | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...cotton manufacturer. Enroute to North England in the company of workhouse children, he falls in love with a slum girl, is involved in a murder and sentenced to be hanged. The good uncle who saves him is an old lover of his dead mother. Viscount Setoun, who sends him to school, gives him an Austrian estate. Christopher's fairy godmother teams up with the Viscount. When an aggressive American schoolgirl tries to seduce Christopher, they send him to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fat Book | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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