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Word: thoughts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought it strange, upon picking up TIME, to find the excellent painting of Davy Kerr staring at me. I thought to myself, "Where is Tiny?" I found Tiny [Thompson] and his ten years of great goal tending passed off in one sentence. I continued to read and I seemed to catch the idea that although the "well-seasoned" Bruins were leading by four points the Rangers were the better team. The "well-seasoned" Bruins (a team playing with six one or two-year major leaguers on its roster) have proved quite conclusively that they are the better team, by beating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Ever since being reluctantly forced to recognize Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria last fortnight, the State Department has been pressed by liberal and racial groups to think up a practical way to express the U. S. Government's disapproval. Last week. Secretary Cordell Hull thought he had found one, gave out a statement describing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Refugee Committee | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Last week 30 spectators flattened their noses curiously, against a bullet-proof glass wall in California's San Quentin prison to watch a preview of a lethal chamber which its makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Preview | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...connected with Harvard. The Directors of the Summer School stress particularly getting young men representative of Universities all over the country as instructors. In this way the heavy emphasis on minute scholarship which the student faces during the academic year is relieved, and an idea of the trends of thought in other sections of the country obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER SCHOOL, PRO AND CON | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

...long organized in Joe Shoong's factory the union's first Chinese local. A National Labor Relations Board election in January established it as sole bargaining agent. Negotiations started. Two weeks later Joe Shoong sold the factory to his foreman Joe Sun and another Chinese. The union thought he had acted in bad faith and its members walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Toggery Trouble | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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