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Word: shoeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started West. G. O. P. Chairman Simeon Davison Fess was ordered back to Washington lest his presence give the President's trip the appearance of a political junket. Postmaster General Brown, however, was permitted to go along. Outside Altoona the train was run off on a siding at Mule Shoe Bend, high among the mountains. Ties were lashed to the tracks to keep it from rolling; switches were spiked; the President slept seven quiet hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Sorties | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...suppressed question as to her airworthiness. Last spring, to give her greater lifting power, she had been cut in two and a 45-ft. section inserted at the slice. A friend of Major G. H. Scott said he had made a remark "about a patched or mended shoe never being quite as sound as a new one." Was the new construction absolutely integral with the original? Might there be an uncalculated weakness at the middle? Might a gale buckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Patched Shoe | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...lights of passing cars. The glare blinds them. They either race in front of the automobile or squat down in the highway. Although New York's wild rabbit death rate is as high as New Jersey's, New York plans this year to stock only with snow-shoe rabbits, which go to the mountain districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cottontails | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...They have prospered to the extent of paying 25,000% in dividends to their 50-odd investors. Most famed member of the group is M. Zographoo, whose extravagance is voitures de grand sport (fast automobiles) and whose reputation for honesty is only equalled by his deftness with a baccarat "shoe" (dealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dashing Jack to the Rescue | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Then ensued what observers described as "an orgy of baccarat." Itinerant gamblers for miles around, learning that Dashing Jack was at the "shoe," flocked to and swamped Frank Jay Gould's place. They came in morning coats, they came in knickers, some came in trunks, bathing suits, beach robes. One deplorable incident during the rush was the unwitting exclusion of Prince Habib Lotfallah who appeared attired in pyjamas after the management, of necessity, had turned away all patrons in beach costume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dashing Jack to the Rescue | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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