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Word: suggester (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Might I humbly suggest that either your reporter revise his terminology, or examiners of teachers revise their routine to include a cursory perusal of that important area devoted to the function of thought, a few anatomical notches above the cerebellum? I wager many a sagging cortex, many a short-circuited corpus callosum will thus be disclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...this missing implement in the U. S. financial tool chest, Senator Claude Pepper of Florida has a bill before the Senate providing for insurance by RFC of bank loans to business for expansion purposes. Last week he appeared before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee to denounce investment bankers and suggest the creation by the Government of national industrial banks to provide capital to small businesses. Said he: "The time has come when the Government must step in and not only afford adequate facilities to business, but break up the grip of the investment banking group upon the money markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: For Little Business | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...view of the low state of debating throughout the country and especially at Harvard, perhaps it was folly for the Council to suggest this plan. Yet it was a folly one cannot help admiring, and a concrete way for the University to show its admiration would be to assign a public speaking instructor as debating coach. This would not only be giving Harvard debating an advantage long enjoyed by every other Ivy League college, but it would be going far toward providing the missing link in the House Plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MISSING LINK | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...lone woman stockholder rose to suggest that Mr. Roosevelt should be set right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Plastered President | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Archbishop McNicholas, who helped found the Legion of Decency, did not suggest any practical means of founding a league of noncombatants. He did, however, urge Catholics to "pray especially for the President of the U. S. who, until recent months, seemed adamant against committing this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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