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Word: walks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condones the NRA, the AAA and other things now going on in this country is a radical in the extreme. The greatest calamity to this country is that President Roosevelt can't walk around and hunt up people to talk to. He can only talk to those his secretaries and assistants allow to come in to see him -and 99% of this crowd is the 'gimme' crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Georgia Cracker | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...Boston I can walk out of my hotel and in five minutes I think I am back in the country." Boston and Washington are her favorite American cities. "There are so many historical points I wanted to see, the first day, all I did was to run around asking people where Bunker Hill was, or where Paul Revere started riding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tallulah Bankhead Says Censoring of Films Silly as Trying to Outlaw Gin | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

...well-played game may be experienced as one deftly dodges the cars in the Square. The odds are highly in favor of the runner. With the exception of taxis and the Coop truck any car can be brought to a dead stop by a calm but firm walk across its path. Cars never attain a dangerous speed in the Square; it is impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

...primary requisite is one qualified medical advisor in constant attendance at the Field House. What is the case now? If a man is injured on a playing field, he is forced to wait until late in the afternoon for the doctor to arrive. If he is able to walk, he can go to the Hygiene Building. To point out that delay often involves sacrifice of the most beneficial treatment is sufficient indictment without conjuring up pictures of the other things that might happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SPRING FANCY | 4/20/1935 | See Source »

...Chopin as an exquisite who was often jealous and rude. The break was Chopin's destruction. With Sand he had done his greatest work, courageously defying disease. Without her he was lost in body and spirit. Two years after she deserted him he was too weak to walk alone. His color was like parchment, his eyes sunken beyond recognition. When Death was near his one dread was that he might be buried alive. When Death came in 1849 his body was, as he wished, opened. His heart was sent to Poland, his body buried in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tragic Pole | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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