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Word: shafting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Building had its official baptism-by-suicide when Frederick Eckert, 33, with a German prayerbook and two religious medals in his pocket jumped from the tower (103rd floor), landed on the 87th floor setback. (In 193, before the building was done, a discharged workman leaped down an elevator shaft from the 102nd floor, landed on the 80th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1932 | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Died, Margaret Tobin Brown ("Unsinkable Mrs. Brown"), 65, relict of Denver's famed Miner James Brown, heroine of the S. S. Titanic disaster; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. After meeting "Leadville John" Brown at the bottom of a mine shaft, marrying him in three weeks, she tried to spend his $10,000,000 fortune in philanthropy, bizarre clothes and crashing Newport and European society. In a Titanic lifeboat she took her turn at the oars before rescue by the S. S. Carpathia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...scientist and oculist. Also he was a Latin scholar, conducted voluminous correspondence with Popes Leo XIII and Benedict XV. Brother William was a naval captain. Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell down a shaft and was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: O'Malley of the Sun | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...heart has stood the most severe strains in a wonderful manner. I beg Einstein's pardon, that I compare my heart with the shaft of a perpetual motion contrivance, which does not exist, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1932 | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...That shaft has been overburdened often and heavily, but not even once have the bearings run warm too much nor the metal shown any signs of breakage, or-to explain my simile-my heart has not become enlarged nor are there any signs of trouble in the valves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1932 | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

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