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Word: sevening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis' daughter Kathryn made friends with Electrical Worker Dan Tracy of the A. F. of L. Cordell Hull, besides beating all comers in his first try at deck golf, communed long and often at the rail with Delegate Landon. The life of the party, Mr. Landon played bridge seven hours at a stretch with Mexico's shaggy, shrewd Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najara. Submitting to an Equatorial initiation by Neptune (Eugene P. Thomas of the National Foreign Trade Council), Mr. Landon was pronounced guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors, including Republicanism," splashed with flour paste and shaved with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Caribbean Moon | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Idria's labor policy would never bag Labor votes for Politico Hoover. About 125 men (mostly Spaniards) work in the ground and in two plants where quicksilver is distilled from cinnabar ore. They toil seven days a week (with pay for overtime), get around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At New Idria | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...ceased being a menace. He broke down and begged Judge Henry W. Goddard for mercy. Judge Goddard gave him ten years, $10,000 fine. To John McAdams, a Customs sergeant through whom Katzenberg used to pass huge shipments of dope into New York, the same judge last fortnight gave seven years for bribe-taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Opium and Morphine | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax declared to the House of Lords: "Mr. Eden ... is going to the United States not as a Cabinet Minister, but with the fullest assent and approbation of the British Government. I have no doubt but that his visit will be extremely valuable in establishing contacts." Seven-year-old Son Nicholas, before solemnly saying good-by to Father Eden at Southampton, admonished: "Now you have a big job on!" Said Anthony Eden to the press: "My wife and I are glad, at last, to have this chance of visiting the United States. . . . We have to be back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: From Fitzhardinge Street | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Shower rooms are located on both the first and second levels. Seven hundred and fifty-two general lockers are available; while 18 lockers have been provided in a special room for coaches and teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS STUDENTS ABOUT CARS | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

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