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Word: shuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fiche moi le camp! Go to hell!" he shouted from his bedroom. "I want to die in peace and I will do all I can to fool you. You shall not learn of my death until 24 hours after I have been shut in my coffin. And now go to hell again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Armistice | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...indicated that while 3,000,000 acres are in production, there are 22,000,000 acres of unproved oil land. There is no satisfactory protection against these fields being opened and operated. In storage is enough oil to furnish the U. S. demands even if all production were entirely shut down for nine months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...glorify in American Government's endeavor to bring about world-peace and International brotherhood. You as an American intelligent, well-informed newspaper editor should follow the leadership of your national leaders, or else consider yourself unfit as an editor and keep your mouth shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...months ago workers were organized by A. F. of L. agents in the cotton mill of Marion Manufacturing Co., owned by Spinster Sallie Baldwin of Baltimore. When the union hands struck, the mill closed down. Unionization spread to the mills of the Clinchfield Co. which also shut down temporarily. When Clinchfield tried to reopen, strikers massed before the gates, manhandled the superintendent. Guardsmen were sent in to restore order. Mill owners commenced to eject union strikers from company houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: They Act Alike | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Committeeman Couzens. Other troubles beset the Republican majority of the Finance Committee in framing their tariff bill. Chief among these was the violation of their shut-mouth rule by James Couzens, a committee member. The committee's doings, the ups and downs of rates, were supposed to be secret, but when high-protectionist Senators commenced to "leak to interested business men, Senator Couzens, as independent as he is rich, could see no reason why he should not likewise tell his constituents what he was doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Sugar: 6 cents per Ib. | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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