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Word: wanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, not General Wood, but wan, diffident Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald resigned. At 47 he retired to his philanthropies and etchings. Sears' directors promptly upped General Wood to the chairmanship, a post to which the retirement rule does not apply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mail Order Men | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...earning his board or part of it by waiting on table or washing dishes should be obliged to pay an Old Age Insurance Tax, in order to provide him with a theoretical Old Age Pension when he reaches the age of 65, and you are greeted with a wan, incredulous smile suggesting that you have made a creditable effort to perpetrate a rather poor joke. Yet this is exactly what a solemnly paternalistic government at Washington, probably unintentionally it is true, has decreed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

MIAMI, Fla.--Harold "Jug" McSpaden of Winchester, Mass wan the biggest prize of his tournament career to day when he shot a one-under par 69 to turn back a savage, last-round threat by Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa., in the Miami open golf championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Metropolitan in a huff six years ago when it threatened to cut his pay, and who was returning to the U. S. to sing on the radio, could not wait either. While stewards gasped, he gave everything he had to "Where Do You Worka John? On the Delaware Lacka-wan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...Alliance men at the convention were wan, tireless President David Lasser. 36, and bespectacled, soft-spoken Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. 37. Two-and-a-half years ago Socialist Lasser's original Alliance and Herbert Benjamin's Communist Unemployment Councils submerged their differences, merged with lesser organizations into the present Alliance. The membership (now claimed 400,000. mostly in Eastern, Midwestern and Pacific Coast cities) continually shifts as clients go on & off relief. The leadership is also in constant flux, at the moment includes such active but seldom mentioned figures as John Spain of New Jersey, Lee Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bread & Progress | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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