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Word: tempts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Fellows Being Squeezed Out after a long period of overproduction. The exit of Quincy and its fellows is less significant than it might be for all U. S. copper producers are shut down to a greater or less extent at the moment. Present prices are too low to tempt much production activity. Copper men viewed with reluctance the suggestion made at Washington that they market their product at its present price in Germany on credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Copper's Travail | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

Hostess Belle Livingstone of Manhattan's "Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club" (TIME, Nov. 10 et seq.) was taken again to federal court and found guilty of con tempt for having violated a personal in junction restraining her from liquor dealing. The defeated defense counsel maintained that Miss Livingstone did not own the Club, was there as paid hostess only in order to gather material for her forthcoming work, With Livingstone in Darkest America. The judge sentenced her to 30 days in Harlem Prison, to which she was conducted by press & police forthwith. One newshawk reported the warden as greeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 16, 1931 | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...home and tempt Mahatma Gandhi, who wants "independence" now, with the promise that if his Nationalist party will cooperate the British Government will grant to India "Reserved Dominion Status" in the immediate future, and full Dominion Status in the distant future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: God Save The King! | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Vagabond finds little in today's or tomorrow's academic assortments to tempt his roving fancy, but he happened to hear that M. Pierre de Lanux was to speak under the auspices of the Harvard Liberal Club tomorrow evening in Emerson F at 8 o'clock. His subject is "Our International Ethics," and it is the paradox of the title that first drew the Vagabond's attention to the lecture. For he has always been under the impression that anything was fair in love, war, or international politics and that perfectly respectable men who were nice to their mothers would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/12/1930 | See Source »

...assuming office, said Acting President Brett: "I don't suppose I shall at tempt to initiate any new situations under the circumstances. My main purpose will be to attempt to preserve the integrity of the college as far as State issues are concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Whence | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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