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Word: steamed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Bradford Ross, secretary (1924) to the late U. S. Senator John B. Kendrick. From his political connections sprouted his close friendship with Wyoming's present rulers, oil-rich Governor Leslie Andrew Miller and Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney. These three became Wyoming's famed political steam roller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Wyoming's M-O-M | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...private powerman who has to pay interest on the entire cost of a dam or a steam station, this arbitrary allocation of Government costs seems thoroughly unfair. Moreover, a public project pays no taxes, which may take as much as 25? from every private power dollar. And after the Ross formula works itself to its 40-year conclusion, the Government apparently will be almost ready to give its power away. Cried the Republican New York Herald Tribune: "Bonneville may be a yardstick to Mr. Ross. To the plain citizen its economics are just slapstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Yardstick v. Slapstick | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...people in Harvard know that the music department possesses a fine Dolmetsch Harpsichord. Of these people, a very few know that it now lies in a miserable state of disrepair, dried out by years of steam heat, so that the ivory inlay has half fallen out of its rosewood case. A very few know that quill tongues are broken and bolstered with felt, that its leather is rotten, that its legs are tied up with string, that its pedals are falling to pieces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

Only in the final period did the home team outrush, moving down the field with the wind. Fullback Joe Bradley put on steam for the winners here, however, while goalie Put Williams made a shoe string catch of a hard low drive for the day's outstanding save...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow Sees Harvard Steam Roll Princeton---Worst Defeat Ever | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...subjects of countless undergraduate discussions, held until now when the spirit moved three or four on the same occasion. With the presentation of Christian ideas as an introduction to a systematically governed debate on religious problems, personal and universal, undergraduates are now given an unpreccedented chance to let off steam to some effect. Insted of consistently avoiding these questions, Harvardmen may, if they will, take a vital interest in trying to understand and evaluate the faith of their fathers. As an instrument reminding students that there is a spiritual side of life, the new series of lectures has already made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GETTING AND SPENDING . . . ." | 10/9/1937 | See Source »

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