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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stuff and hot revelations have already been promised by Mr. Dies and by Senator La Follette, the former now recovered from an appendectomy that temporarily affected his heart. Mr. Smith, the calm, unpurged Virginian, has promised only a "fair and impartial" scrutiny of NLRB, but New Dealers do not like the look in his eye (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sideshows | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Obviously a mere whaling conference was small-time stuff for such a big-time Nazi. While in London he sought out Robert Spear Hudson, British Government economic expert and Secretary for Overseas Trade. Not a member of the Cabinet, Mr. Hudson nevertheless is one of His Majesty's Ministers. He led a "revolt"' of junior ministers last winter against the Cabinet's dilatory rearmament policy and, although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Smoke and Fire | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Laborites Lewis and Bittner moved slowly and thoroughly. They did not risk the splits and premature rough stuff that C. I. O. permitted to occur elsewhere. Chicago packinghouse labor lives "back of the yards" in a wide, dismal area of ramshackle homes and crumby tenements. Nearly all now belong to the C. I. O. Nearly all are devout Roman Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Meat, and a Bishop | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Feller had the baseball experts stumped. The Iowa schoolboy, who had startled the baseball world in 1936 by striking out 76 men in his first 62 innings of major-league play and was thereupon hailed as the greatest pitching prodigy of the decade, had apparently lost his stuff in his second year as a regular pitcher for the Cleveland Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stellar Feller | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Accent on Youth) not only packed them in, critics liked them too, praised their deftness, wit, freshness. But Broadway and Hollywood are not Parnassus. Skylark, a fluffy first novel originally written as a play (serialized in the Satevepost as Streamlined Heart), last week proved that Samson Raphaelson's stuff is better on boards than in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Play in Boards | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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