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Word: slicings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealed that the wholesale division had lost no less than $12,000,000 in the past five years. Butler's President Cunningham, in Florida last week for a quick vacation, must have had a few chuckles over that Field report, for he expects to grab off a fat slice of the business Field has abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Modern Jobber | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...under martial law for six and a half months. And last week the fourth general strike in U. S. history was called at Pekin, Ill. It lasted only 22 hours, affected less than 3,000 workers. Yet Strike Leader Frank S. Mahoney's conduct of this small slice of industrial war was sufficiently effective to cow 17,000 Pekinese for a day & a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Pekin General | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...picture is not a pretty one, honeycombed as it is with special privileges, rottenness, and graft. But the finishing touches are yet to be added. News from Washington indicates that the "veterans" (many of whom almost reached the Atlantic scaboard) are determined to slice off their last chunk of federal funds by demanding immediate payment of certificates which fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SACK OF WASHINGTON | 1/14/1936 | See Source »

Breakfast: fruit, one egg, two strips of bacon, half a slice of bread, coffee with cream & sugar. Lunch: fruit, vegetable salad, one slice of bread with butter, cake or a half portion of pie, coffee with cream but no sugar. Dinner: meat, two vegetables, one quarter of a potato, coffee with cream & sugar, cake or fruit. Rose walked for an hour and a half every day and once a week Dr. Schuman massaged her in "places where she needed to lose." Warning that the diet varied from day to day and might be harmful to anyone else, Dr. Schuman emphasized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big & Strong (Cont'd) | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...that it will go on for years & years, making friends for itself and for the brave woman who wrote it, and also-this would please her most-friends for Japan." A Daughter of the Nohfu gave some readers last week the secret notion that no matter how Japanesily you slice it, Little Rollo is still baloney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Rollo, Sliced | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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