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Word: slicings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waddled off to his great Las Palomas hacienda. From there he continued to block organization drives of the Leftist CTM labor union in his State, permitted Catholic schools to continue, defiantly hung on to his huge land holdings and held up Government agrarian engineers in their efforts to slice up Potosí estates into communal ejidos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cedillo Squeeze | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Oldfather out, Nichols distanced the field to win in 4:38 at Exeter. Against Yale he will run the mile just to pick up points, leaving the blue-ribbon to Oldfather if he can get it. Nichols will run the two-mile for the first time this season, may slice seconds off the slow meet record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/10/1938 | See Source »

Members of the committee compensated only by a ticket to the Army football game and a free copy of their own annual, indicated that while they did not wish a slice of the profits for themselves they resented the appropriation of a "clean-up" of $1750 for the president and of $800 for Letsinger, his immediate assistant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Yearbook Men Accuse Chairman Steadman of "Cleanup" | 3/11/1938 | See Source »

...handlers & owners, as well, occasionally took refuge. In three days the So tons of dogs were fed four tons of Spratt's dog food, a sop of wheat, meat, bone dust, and water. Foley for his order, Spratt's for their larder, between them pocketed a large slice of the 875.000 laid out by the Club. Other major expenses: $20,000 each for rent of the Garden and for prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 1 of 3,093 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...right foot by floating the first public offering of International Telephone & Telegraph common stocks. I. T. & T. financing soon got too big for the firm to handle and went to J. P. Morgan & Co., but E. B. Smith enjoyed the reflected glory and a fat slice of every I. T. & T. deal. Some of its other flotations like Roosevelt Field, Inc. and R. Hoe & Co. added nothing to its name, but E. B. Smith managed to avoid the subsequent attention lavished by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee on most of its peers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Marriage of Convenience | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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