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Word: stucke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 »

Tony Stralla, defiant in a tan sombrero, angrily snorted that he had "enough food for a year" on board. He threatened to have the law on Attorney General Warren and his "pirates." While he stuck to his anchorage, far away in Washington large legal wheels began spinning. The House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a quick measure, approved by U. S. Attorney General Murphy, making it a crime to operate a gambling ship under U. S. registry. Tony Stralla had an answer for that one. If need be, said he, he would fly the flag of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chance on the High Seas | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Knowland went to Washington. In 1927, and again in 1928, Captain Martin left the U. S. When he returned he had an appointment as vice-consul for San Leandro (a suburb of Oakland). He painted the Spanish coat-of-arms on the side of Mrs. Dargie's automobile, stuck a Spanish flag in the radiator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oakland Case | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Hoover indignantly yelped at this "vicious personal slander and libel in which there is not the remotest possible truth," demanded an apology in the next Round Table broadcast. In Washington, Columnist Pearson stuck by his pea-shooters, remarked: "No intelligent person would construe my remarks to mean that Mr. Hoover personally was buying up Southern delegates . . . they are being rounded up by his political friends in the manner that politicians usually round up Negro and poor white Republicans in the solid South. . . . As to how that is done, I refer to Bascom Slemp and Perry Howard, who did valiant work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Intelligent Person | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...tubing from Mr. Faulkner's garage. He filled the jar with sterile water, punched four holes in its cap and screwed it on. He ran one long tube from the oxygen tank through the cover and almost to the bottom of the jar. The other three tubes were stuck just far enough through to take the oxygen as it came off the water's surface. Function of the water was to moisten the sharp oxygen which might otherwise irritate the delicate mucous membranes of the babies' throats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fruit-Jar Rescue | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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