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Word: tightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...projected Rockefeller library that decision to build it forced the League of Nations far out into Geneva's inconvenient suburbs. The town's jangling "Toonerville Trolley" line was to have been extended out to the $10,000,000 League Palace, but last week tight-fisted Geneva burghers snorted: "The municipality has no funds for such a purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Elephant White | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Barrymore) would not allow used for his lady-dog. He believed in general that a dog was as good a friend as a man, except that it had none of a man's faults. When an interloper (Dudley Digges) circled his sheep pasture with woven-wire fence, hog-tight, bull-strong, and horse-high, Spring held him for an enemy although his own son Benjy (Eric Linden) loved the interloper's daughter, Camden (Maureen O'Sullivan). One night of good hunting, a dog's pain-yip in the dark and a trail of Bugle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...patronage in Florida. Last August when the canal project seemed virtually dead, Politician Hills took 60 canal boosters to Washington. There they buttonholed Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, a Jacksonville man who up to that time had shown no great enthusiasm for a canal across his State. In a tight political spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Sore Thumb | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...down by Police Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless the distillery agreed to cease "discriminating" against A. F. of L. unionists, and unless the city council ousted Police Chief Donahue, Mahoney and his men would "tie up Pekin as tight as a drum." The city answered by calling for militia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Pekin General | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...that they are at the top of the heap, Sacker thinks he is sitting pretty. As organizer and commander of the 1,600,000 National Volunteers that put Hillier in power, he feels himself indispensable, thinks Hillier will give him a free hand to reorganize England into a tight little fighting machine. "He began describing the England he would create when he and his friends were in charge. It made me wince. It was like nothing more than a fearful sort of public school, with willing fags, a glorious hierarchy of heroes in the persons of himself and his Volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In England, Too | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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