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Word: takes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Take a piece of toast hot from the toaster tomorrow morning and lay it on a cold plate. When you pick it up you will note the plate is beaded with drops of moisture. And it won't be saliva. . . . The air the musician takes into his lungs is not saturated with saliva when he blows it into his horn, it is warmed in the lungs so that its natural moisture is more easily condensed when it passes into the cooler metal coils of the horn, and this natural moisture of the air (water) is what is precipitated within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...plane and train from all over the U. S. gathered the Roosevelt clan, some two dozen strong-with newest grandson, eight-month-old John Roosevelt Boettiger, coming East to take his first look at his famous grandfather. Ready as always was Grandmother Eleanor, her activities for the holiday week scheduled to the minute-six public Christmas tree ceremonies, three religious services, three celebrations in New York City, three separate White House children's parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Green Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...bitterly proclaim that the Wagner Act and NLRB decisions had put thousands of Progressive miners under the jurisdiction of John Lewis' United Mine null They read of Roosevelt Son-in-law John Boettiger, publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, bitterly protesting an NLRB decision, but stating he would take no further action because he did not want to jeopardize his fine relations with the American Newspaper Guild. They heard talk of an NLRB "goon squad," of the Board having relations with a union of its own employes, which it forbade industry, office delays, annoyances, talebearing, favoritism. They heard read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Labor's Safeguardians | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Whilst heartily approving your general attitude with regard to the H.S.U., I should like to take issue with the statement that, whilst "...the H.S.U. is avowedly an organization for the preservation of peace and democracy... a basic confusion still remains; the confusion about the role of the communist in a liberal coalition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...unlimited class, Tudor Gardiner failed to show his best wrestling form and was pinned by Mathew Cummings of Tufts. Cummings' consistently good form allowed him to take advantage of Gardnier's slip...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Varsity Wrestlers Overcome Jumbos 24-8; Daughaday and Thomas Star | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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