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Word: stampedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taxi Weekly discreetly avoids stirring any controversy within the ranks, but is quick to pounce upon threats from without, great or small. In 1927 it campaigned successfully against proposed legislation to raise insurance rates on cabs. And with scarcely less vigor it commanded the attention of Mayor James John Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Taxi! | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

Scalpers. "For the first time in many years the large majority of theatrical managers can clearly establish that they are in no way involved in ticket graft and have taken definite steps to abolish it." Thus, last week, the League of New York Theatres signalized the fact that it had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Summer Lightning | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova (UFA). For the last year UFA has been making an obvious attempt to inject its product with box-office values imitated from Hollywood?an attempt which has not been very successful because the Hollywood patterns selected for imitation have all been a year or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

Because these ominous 24 hours were not marked by any violent atrocity, residents in the British Isles breathed easier, but Britons on the spot continued acutely anxious as tens of thousands of natives in small white "Gandhi caps" paraded through Bombay, thousands through such cities as Calcutta and Madras. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: American Gandhi | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

While 150 fans shivered and stamped their feet Harvard downed Bowdoin yesterday afternoon on the diamond by a score of 5 to 1. It was the Crimson's seventh game of the season and its third victory.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEVENS STRIKES OUT 11 AS HARVARD TRIMS BOWDOIN, 5-1 | 4/17/1930 | See Source »

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