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Word: vein (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have charge of New York's relief machine in a year, whose character was recently gauged by newshawks who asked him where he came from. "From Arkansas," growled the Colonel, "where men are men and women are glad of it.'' Last week he responded in similar vein to a Journal newshawk: "I think this is swell publicity, and the more weaselers we can find, the better pleased I'll be. If there are any dead men on the payrolls, we want to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Dead Men, Dead Cats | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...platform demanding that doctors guarantee cures, "Peace" be substituted for "Hello" as a telephone salutation, life insurance be abolished. Father Divine habitually ends his letters: "This leaves ME Well, Healthy, Joyful, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Successful, Prosperous and Happy in Spirit, Body and Mind and in every organ, muscle, sinew, vein and bone and even in every atom, fiber and cell of MY bodily form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Divine Week | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

That the U. S. had a great new gold vein in its lap was the fond hope of the West last week.* Whatever it was, the Jumbo Mine, in the Awakening district of Nevada's Slumbering Hills made headlines from San Francisco to Manhattan. Discoverers were two old prospectors, "Red" Staggs and Clyde Taylor, who spied the yellow flecks on the frozen ground of this sagebrush desert on Jan. 29, 1935. Three months later, in need of cash, they sold their find to George Austin, grizzled, 63-year-old keeper of the general store, hotel and filling station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jungo's Jumbo | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...bought equipment. Crudely he dug out three sacks of ore, trekked them out by packhorse and sent them to the San Francisco Mint. They were worth $84.45. His ore assayed at the bonanza rate of $1,495 gold and 20 oz. of silver per ton. If the Jumbo vein held out, George Austin was a very rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jungo's Jumbo | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...sure conclusion her attempts to produce an acceptable heir to carry on the Stuart succession. At the mere sight of George she fell pregnant; but of all these children only six lived long enough to be given names." Queen Anne was a heavy drinker. Her many pregnancies caused varicose veins in her legs. One vein ulcerated, producing toxaemia and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Postmortems | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

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