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Word: shushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was also sudden talk in Moscow last week of establishing nondenominational U. S. Protestant churches in Russia. This, Bolshevik leaders seemed to feel, would help President Roosevelt shush devout U. S. critics of his failure to protest up to last week the broken Soviet pledge. Correspondents were told that all U. S. Protestants have to do is supply the money and they can have a church in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Ways to Power | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...President seized his long distance telephone at Warm Springs, called Washington to shush a fine squabble between PWAdministrator Ickes and NHAdministrator Moffett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Southern Hospitality | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...green risers, the first story bright orange-yellow, the trim of the front door bright blue, the door green, the upper story red, white, green and blue, striped and smeared. She hung two big dummies against the . wall, painted a donkey, an elephant, seven jackasses, a sign "Speak gently, shush, KISS ME," a figure of blindfolded Justice saying "Oh. my!" in an attitude of dancing, a large stein of beer labeled "Oh, boy!." and the legend. "Don't you know you're being ridiculed?" Mrs. Warren's library includes a set of "The World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...Hiram Hamilton is chief engineer and whose factory is in Asylum Street, Hartford, will-besides continuing to make silencers for guns, motor exhausts, safety valves, air releases, in fact every kind of pipe which emits a gas-offer a consulting service in noise abatement. Chief abater will be "Dr. Shush," the Maxim trademark character, who looks like a caricature of Hiram Percy Maxim's uncle, the late explosive-making Hudson Maxim (1853-1927). But "Dr. Shush" is really Hiram Percy Maxim, noise's bogeyman. Remarkable have been the Maine family of Maxims. Hudson Maxim, who started business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Noise's Bogeyman | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

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