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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Attorney General Frank Murphy, accompanied by Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, suddenly appeared in Kansas City, Mo. This was but one stop for them, they said, on a whirlwind, 48-hour "inspection trip" to five big Midwest cities. Mr. Murphy explained that his mission was to tell his U. S. District Attorneys to snap into their work, clean up their dockets, above all not to cringe and flinch before any political overlords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: BIGGER THAN HINES | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Retorted to Herbert Hoover in defense of her husband's Stop-Hitler policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: ORACLE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...trip saw much improvement in the work of Bob Fulton, regular back-stop, especially in his throwing, and in his handling of pitchers. However, the fact remains that Keyes and Fulton together accounted for six of the team's 11 errors during the past week...

Author: By Thedore R. Barneit, | Title: Batting Power Key to Nine's League Prospects This Year | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

Today at 12:56 P. M. Charles R. Apted will take over Lehman Hall: "President Conant and about twelve members of the University attending the meeting, already have their reservations on the Caravan. Who's next? "The Caravan choo choos along and picks up more Harvard men at each stop (see how it works)." No sooner settled in the deep South at their headquarters, the Hotel Roosevelt, the Harvard gentlemen will have to face three busy days. At symposia, business meetings, and graduate school seminars, such topics as "Youth Dons the Toga of Citizenship," "The Student helps the Dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESCENT INTO THE DELTA | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

...found this "open field" mildly terrifying. They showed emotion by excreting. That excretion is a valid evidence of emotion is affirmed by the experiences of countless soldiers suffering extreme fear in battle, of some aviators just about to crash, by the observation of dog-owners who see their pets stop more frequently at lampposts when excited, even by the testimony of psychiatrists that in a few unfortunate people the rousing of amorous passion is accompanied by overpowering excretory stimuli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Emotional Rats | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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