Word: transiently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been granted. But the hotels balked at the clerks on the ground that they were "confidential employes." For nearly three months such famed hostelries as the Mark Hopkins and the Fairmont on Nob Hill, the St. Francis and the Palace (where died Warren G. Harding) have been closed to transient and local trade...
...Chicago she watched an old grifter friend hanged for a payroll murder, got jobs in transient bureaus which never lasted longer than the time it took to check up on her past record. When Bertha struck up acquaintance with a statistician working on a Federal transient survey and he offered her a job, she took it; her wanderlust was nearly sated. She decided to settle down in Manhattan, raise her own child. She was 30, and she had seen the world...
...decade Dr. Ewing has declared that with six $10,000,000 institutes, scientists could soon control cancer. Nearest approach to that, before last week's gift, was $2,000,000 which Steelmaker William Henry Donner of Philadelphia, transient father-in-law of Elliott Roosevelt, gave for an International Cancer Research Foundation (TIME, June 20, 1932). Before that the biggest cancer war chest was the $1,400,000 of the George Crocker Institute for Cancer Research, which Dr. Francis Carter Wood manages at Columbia University...
...which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free Governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield...
...shadow of its Cathedral. Monsignor Buddy sits on the municipal Board of Health, aids in Community Chest campaigns, founded northern Missouri's first Negro Catholic church, an Information Forum for people of all creeds, a riverfront shelter and cafeteria which the Government took over in 1934 as a transient relief bureau. In the shelter, whose motto was "We never ask questions," Monsignor Buddy did such good deeds as buying haircuts and hair ribbons for little girls who thanked him because: "We wanted to look nice for Sunday School at the Methodist Church tomorrow...