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Word: stilles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being discriminated against ? Are not all TIME readers created equal? What is this Subscribers' Library of yours that a friend recently visited, and is still raving about? And why haven't I, too, been invited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...afternoon waned, dinnertime came, then night, but still the Deficiency herdsman stuck to the floor: explaining, arguing, wheedling votes. Hot Senatorial tempers kept the galleries lathered with laughter. But Adams and his adjournment-bent majority held their lines, beat off all amendments, brought the Third Deficiency Bill safely through the gauntlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Blood on the Saddle | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt took the defeat calmly (see p. 11). To get his foes' names on the record he ordered bald, kindly Leader Sam Rayburn to bring up the $800,000,000 Housing bill. But that very day the House was still crashing the ax on Roosevelt spending, slashing the Deficiency bill by three-fourths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Blood on the Saddle | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Ohio. The contraption was specified to go 40 m.p.h. with a 25-h.p., four-cylinder engine.* This Wright machine was not only the first plane bought by the U S.: it was the winged germ of the world's first military flying force. At 54 Clerk Mullaney is still on the job and so is the force for which he bought Wright's ship. In celebrating August 2 as its 30th birthday, the U. S. Army Air Corps last week could boast, not only that it is now in process of becoming the equal of any nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Daddy's Day | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...business. To Butcher Dubil's surprise the slices did not blacken, but again became a toothsome red. Customers bought them and to his amazement they came back next day for more. William Dubil hard-froze more meat, thawed his thin slices gradually in the display case, but still wondered why they were so tender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Butcher's Luck | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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