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Word: silents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight they poured out of the Federal Reserve Bank and 16 of the biggest of them mounted into five waiting limousines, sped northward up silent lower Broadway past the slumbering warehouses of Lafayette Street, up Park Avenue, among the taxis of night-club-goers to the home of Governor Lehman who was patiently staying home for them, having given up his trip to the inauguration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bottom | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Maryland. The moratorium that closed 200 Maryland banks and tied up nearly a billion dollars in resources was decreed by Governor Ritchie because of: 1) the after-effects of the Michigan shutdown; 2) the National City disclosures before the Senate; 3) a silent run that was taking $6,000,000 per day from Baltimore banks. Declared Governor Ritchie: "There is no justification for the withdrawals. . . . My determination is that first, last and all the time the interests of the depositors must be protected." To that end he worked night & day to draft and get the Legislature to pass what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKS: Close to Bottom | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

...Several pronunciations of Jehol are equally permissible. The "J" is pronounced either like R in ran or like the French J in jour. The "L" is silent in China proper, is sounded by Manchurians. According to the standard "Wade System" of rendering phonetics into English, Jehol is pronounced "Ruh-huh" and Manchukuo is pronounced "Mahndrowgwoh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War of Jehol | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the silent, Jovian man who for 25 years has sat in a musty back office guiding the affairs of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, was given a party this week. His 200 singers sang for him. Oldtime Metropolitan stars returned to the stage to honor him.* Swayed by the wholehearted sentiment which opera-folk thrive on, the house fairly shook with shouts when the Metropolitan ballet shaped itself into a giant birthday cake, held up 25 candles. From his grandtier box Mr. Gatti gravely gave the Italian salute but no amount of persuasion would bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan's Return | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

...with him, one of whom, John, was elected last week to succeed him as secretary-treasurer. One brother is dead; one left the show business to become a Christian Science reader. Barney Balaban is 46, bald, quiet, reserved, able. He rides horseback nearly every morning. In the silent picture days it was he who thought of having orchestra scores to fit the picture's moods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Feb. 6, 1933 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

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