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Word: unpreparedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the atmosphere of a mystery-melodrama was the tax announcement framed. First President Hoover held an early morning White House conference with Secretary Mellon, Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, Governor Roy Archibald Young of the Federal Reserve Board. So early in the morning was it and so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: 1%-0ff | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Utterly unprepared was the U. S. to impose the death penalty. Its agents first attempted to borrow the jail of Broward County for the execution, were chased away by the County Commissioners, who insisted a U. S. hanging should occur on U. S. property. So a great gallows was erected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Hangar Hanging | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Speculators chewed ragged cigars last week, conferred past midnight, lost their sleep. Thursday's stock market had closed strong when the Bank of England did not raise its rediscount rate. Then, late in the afternoon, came announcement that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had raised its rate from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bear Friday | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

How these 125 Negro graduates are to get their hospital experience is a problem which the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges last week called to the profession's attention by its reports of the Association's last meeting. A doctor must spend one or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Schools for Negroes | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

To fix the blame in what is clearly a case of divided inadvertencies has little point, particularly in this admittedly extraordinary instance. Undergraduates find little fault with the conduct of examinations at Harvard in such matters of principle as the question of the honor system. Certain of its mechanics, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN AGAINST THEBES | 10/11/1928 | See Source »

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