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Word: taping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were four Dartmouth runners with handicaps of from 10 to 95 yards. Careful was Borican this time to be off with the gun and not before. He turned off the quarter in a sweet 52.4, overhauled the pacers one by one, raced on to break the 800-meter tape in 1:49.2, the half-mile tape 5.1 yards farther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Spruce | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...longer a Communist, as he tells his C. I. 0. superiors, he smells like one to Socialists Butler & Mitchell. Last week they accused him of deliberately wrecking their union to subordinate it to the Communist Party. They declared that he confused simple Southern Negroes and "poor whites" with red tape, refused to support S. T. F. U.'s roadside sit-down in Missouri, finally suspended all its officers without a hearing and called a reorganization convention in St. Louis this week. On Donald Henderson's behalf, a C. I. 0. spokesman replied that he had simply tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Secession | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...shelved along with the two-price plan late in January, he was succeeded by a well-groomed young (39) businessman named Milo Randolph Perkins. In 1934 when outspoken Milo Perkins was running his own cotton-bagging business in Houston, he wrote Henry Wallace a hot letter denouncing administrative red tape in the first AAA, wrote an article in the Nation excoriating the shortsightedness of his fellow capitalists. In 1935 Henry Wallace hired Mr. Perkins as Assistant Secretary. He later became Assistant Farm Security Administrator, learned plenty at first hand about the woes of stricken agriculturists. Last week Washington Correspondent Alfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Ticket Dole? | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

James Arthur Miller (Stanford '13, U. S. Navy, Warner Brothers) has a sound-recording system which picks up sound on a film tape in much the same way that the sound track on a talking cinema film does it. Engineer Miller's theory is that most radio shows, concerts, interviews could and should be staged, directed, polished up and edited beforehand, Hollywood style, and then transmitted from recordings. With radio's prevalent system of disc recording, cutting and editing is almost impossible. But with Millertape a complete, timed-to-the-second radio show can be pieced together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Miller's Way | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...picked on his Chinese servants while refusing to let Japanese work for him, evaded, stalled, levied a staggering rate of exchange. Their diplomatic technique was to say yes and do nothing. Harris' technique was stubbornness, honesty, hospitality. It was four years before he cut through ice and red tape to reach the Emperor. Yet so well did he succeed at the palace that when the British came along a few weeks later they only had to travel to the palace in Harris' palanquin to have their treaty signed in no time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enshrined Diplomat | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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