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Word: trappings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of destructiveness they are bungling amateurs compared with their big-brained relative, man. . . . For untold millions of years the long line of vertebrates that led toward man was of unblushing thieves and robbers. Even now, the human face beneath its smiling mask carries the old mammalian trap set with sharp teeth. ... No wonder we suffer from grafters, gunmen and racketeers. The wonder is, not that so many of us find ourselves in prison, but that any of us have learned to keep out. "As soon as apes began to go in families and hordes . . . unselfishness of mothers, devotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. at Atlantic City | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...believer in tariff reciprocity, he got that feature into the Democratic platform, made it part of Nominee Roosevelt's New Deal. If he is elected Speaker and the new Congress orders a tariff revision, his ideas will dominate the proceedings. His ideas: "We are in a tariff trap. . . . What we need now is a broad, comprehensive plan to save our foreign trade from complete disaster. . . . Our tariff policy will be only part of that plan. . . . We must have

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Race to a Rostrum | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...cliche of putting the prosecutor in the boots of the prosecuted. Obviously such a theme will have as wide an appeal as a well-written detective story. Like some of the mediocre tales of crime, "Circumstantial Evidence" suffers from a plot that temerity would brand as clap-trap, but discrimination would be inclined to call well cemented. Although damaging evidence may be inextricable from the truth, a plot that is so tortuously constructed is likely to cause the spectator's credulity to totter. There are too many improbable parallels...

Author: By H. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/14/1932 | See Source »

Since 90% of the German electorate decisively rejected von Papenism at the polls last month, the President's stipulation could not have been fulfilled by any German last week. Plainly it was a trap to embarrass Leader Hitler and stamp him with the stigma of having "failed" to form a Cabinet. Realizing this, ex-Corporal Hitler decided to drop his negotiations with ex-Fieldmarshal von Hindenburg, told his aides to draft a final letter to the President and hied himself to Berlin's State Opera, enjoyed a rollicking performance of Die Meistersinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Only One Man .... | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...Albert R. Brand has been roving the hills of New Jersey and southern New York. Before dawn he would drive his truck up beside a pre-selected tree or fence, bear to it a small, cable-attached object, then retreat to wait, watch, listen. Once he put his '"trap" on the limb where a song sparrow came each dawn to serenade his nesting mate; once near a beer barrel which a whippoorwill had chosen for its nightly concert stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bird Songs & Skins | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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