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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss) CURTIS WAGER-SMITH Willow Grove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...only other feature attraction at Annapolis is a strangely dimensioned pool which will not permit a 50-yard race to be swum. It has to be a 60, and rumor has it that this race is negotiated across the pool at that. Wager and Englander are the Middies who will handle the sprints. They are not expected to press Jim Curwen...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Hoopsters and Confident Mermen in Action Today | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

...tubby, smart John Francis Jr., 15, was sports editor of Barnard School's paper, John Sr. called a big one wrong. If Schmeling beat Joe Louis he promised to eat his hat. John ate a hat all right-a candy and cake creation. John Jr. lost no such wager, but dad's wrong guess was a blow. He said, "Did I lose prestige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kieran & Co. | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Might I humbly suggest that either your reporter revise his terminology, or examiners of teachers revise their routine to include a cursory perusal of that important area devoted to the function of thought, a few anatomical notches above the cerebellum? I wager many a sagging cortex, many a short-circuited corpus callosum will thus be disclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...total assets which FDIC has in hand to wager amount to some $385,000,000, of which about a fifth has come from assessments (one twelfth of 1% per annum of total deposits) on those 13,800 U. S. banks which are now insured. In case of another crisis such as 1933, the FDIC could issue its bonds, notes or debentures to a total in one year of $975,000,000. Thus FDIC has or can raise a maximum of a billion and a quarter dollars as an anchor to windward for some 20 billion in deposits. Whether the anchor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Anchor | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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