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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The two Crimson runs came in the eighth when, after pinch hitter Burges Ayres rapped out a clean single, Rice came through with his four bagger.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harrison Pitches Eli Cube To Win Over 1942 Nine | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Without the use of guinea pigs, or without any resort to actuarial tables, my friend figured through a simple calculation of the number of drinks that he has had, that, according to the estimates of Dr. Arthur Hunter (that every drink costs the moderate drinker 25 minutes of life), there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

On cutting expenditures: "I sit in my office with a business man who thinks the surest way to produce customers is to balance the Federal budget at once. I say to him-'How?' Sometimes he says-'How should I know? That is your job.' Sometimes he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Critics Damned | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

The Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., which is running the Rochester experiment, normally buys food direct from farmers, cooperatives, etc., and distributes it to the needy through 22,647 outlets in charge of local and State relief agencies. Many are inefficient, careless, hard to deal with, and FSCC is far from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Surplus Sal | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

FSCC's perky President Milo Perkins, in devising a substitute and trying it at Rochester, is well aware that it costs the U. S. twice as much for handouts. For "surplus" in Rochester means any & all brands of designated foods, stocked and sold by the grocer in the usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Surplus Sal | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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