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Word: ve (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ve reached the saturation point for long-winded speeches," cried a rebellious delegate at President Homer Martin who was orating at the United Automobile Workers second annual convention in Milwaukee last week. "Why aren't the committees ready to report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Problem Child | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...Crimson that they've got another crop of Freshmen coming up to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

...What? What's Harvard! You mean to say you don't know about Harvard? You've never read any of Samuel Eliot Morison's books? Why, everybody knows about Harvard. Even the professors at the Law School have heard." The Vagabond had been thrown for a terrible loss. He was apparently all for continuing in much the same exhorting strain, but the man with the big brown eyes broke in, quietly, sibilently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

...Marty") Durkin, known in his gunning heyday as "The Sheik" and now in his twelfth year of a 35-year term in Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters" weekly dramatization. "They've got no right to use my misfortune to peddle soap," said Lawyer Irving S. Roth for Convict Durkin, eligible for parole in seven more months. Into court at Chicago marched Mr. Roth, seeking an injunction against the broadcast. Surprised, Benton & Bowles quickly dropped Durkin's tale, instead told one about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Durkin v. Drama | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...officer smiled triumphantly. "Well, buddy, suppose you explain why you've got Ohio tags on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Coincidence-of-the-Week | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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