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Word: terme (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Dakota, which Franklin Roosevelt carried by a modest margin, other Democratic candidates had a bad time. Governor Tom Berry fell behind Republican Leslie Jensen in his bid for a third term. The State's two Representatives, both Democrats, had neck & neck races, scored one victory, one defeat. Democratic Senator William J. Bulow trailed his opponent. Chandler Gurney, until, two days after election, he found himself safe by a nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Democratic Drift | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...This particular car did not come into my hands as those of a motoring correspondent," wrote the Earl of Cottenham. "Indeed, in the strict sense of the term. I am not a professional motoring correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swank | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...substantial income until, on the average, he is thirty-three years old. The most obvious and practical way of meeting this problem in part, at least, is to intensify school work and shorten the college course to three years for those who desire it. In favor of long-term education are those who plead that a man is too young for college until he is nineteen, the advocates of inflexible concentration and distribution requirements, and many who demand years spent in broadening the student's horizan by browsing through purely cultural courses. All these views are perfectly rational and acceptable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EACH ACCORDING TO HIS POWERS | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...desire rest most of all. Political figures, at that age, write autobiographies and dwell over the past. On July 11, 1936, Senator Geo. William Norris was 75 and could look back on years of service in Washington. Instead he looked forward to another six years as senator, a term that will last until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

BELIEVING 1. that intercollegiate football as now played may no longer be considered "sport" in the true sense of the word, and that the term "sport" and intercollegiate football of today are incompatible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

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