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Word: terme (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Creoles, especially Creole Negroes (who loved the game) could not easily pronounce the term "crabs"-when they did yell it, it sounded like "craps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

YOUR STATEMENT IN TIME, FEB. 27 "DISGRUNTLED DING RESIGNED" SHOULD BE CORRECTED. NEITHER AM I DISGRUNTLED NOR DID I RESIGN FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION. ... IN PASSING ALONG THE PRESIDENCY WE HOPED TO ESTABLISH A TWO-TERM PRESIDENT AND AVOID STIGMA OF A ONE-MAN SHOW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Ding") Darling's second term as president of the National Wildlife Federation expires on May 1. At the meeting in Detroit last month, David A. Aylward, first vice president, was elected to succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...drift of such polls rather than the drift of cigar smoke in hotel rooms. To answer yes-butters who say, "But if Mr. Roosevelt decides to run again . . .?" Mr. Hurja has only to point again to the polls: 53% of all Democrats are now counted against a Third Term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Undeclared War | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...same time, Harvard cannot consider her labor problem solved for good and all. For the present, a very liberal contract has been signed, and one which rectifies real injustices. Wage increases, a longer term of employment, and the all-important promise of an eventual closed shop can be justified by comparison with conditions of employment elsewhere, and by the fact that 85 per cent of the workers are already members of the Union. But concession today cannot be interpreted as indication of probable weakness tomorrow. It was only because of the basic willingness to modify unreasonable demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICY OF APPEASEMENT | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

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