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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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We evolved a plan of attack which was moderately successful. We would row out into the ocean about 300 yards, then bore a hole six inches in diameter in the bottom of the boat, preferably near the bow. We would then rub around the edge of the hole a mixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

My uncle learned this trick from the Eskimos, who have long indulged in hole-boring tactics in fishing. They do it through ice. The way we did it, through our boat, made it much more of a sporting proposition. I heartily recommend whifflepoof fishing to Mr. Miller if he wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Five billions is nearly 2,300 millions more than the average amount the Government collected through the roaring late 1920s, but still it came nowhere near paying the Government's bills. Even in the era of the Permanently Unbalanced Budget, the bloated poverty of fiscal 1939 was something to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Astronomy | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

"Less than ten feet from one of our party was a charming little girl in her sweet innocency, by high-life rules paired at a table with a young man with a wife and children at home. All aglow in her youthful innocent glee she unfolded plans made to pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Lurid Luren | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Born a slave, liberated in 1865 when his master, a Confederate captain, returned from the war, Richard Wright had his resolute, ambitious mother to thank for his education. She and her free brood tramped 150 miles from Cuthbert to Atlanta, Ga. There he worked his way through Atlanta University (1876...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Up From Slavery | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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