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Word: wels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry, the subject of poverty is especially pertinent, but a man who expects to loll leisurely in the library glancing at pictures of idiots, imbeciles, morons and thyroid sufferers will get a jolt in a very short time. Even, poverty can be prosaic, and the administration of a wel- fare society when presented with a sober lack of expression and in intricately balanced sentences does not encourage strict attention

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...great corn-hog reduction program. The hog part of it provided that every farmer who cut his hog birthrate 25% during 1934 would get a bonus of $5 a head for the other 75%. To many a Midwestern farmer who usually raised 100 hogs this meant $375 of wel- come Government cash if he would raise only 75 hogs. That was what Secretary Wallace had in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Pig Surprise | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...wheat and wool. Australia, as is natural from her geographical position, has found good markets in the Far East and unless international rivalries are pursued to the point of national suicide that trade must not be discouraged. The poor people of both England and Australia do not wel come a policy compelling them to buy in a dearer market." In Tokyo last week arrived sober, youthful-looking John Grieg Latham, Australian Minister for External Affairs. He was dined & wined, received by the Emperor in audience and taken in state to inspect two cotton mills. To interviewers he announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Keeper of Peace | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87). One of his earliest letters was: "Der Sister. We ar al wel. Ma haz a baby. The old sow had six pigs." He was educated at Sister Catherine's Hartford Female Seminary, Boston Latin School, Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. Amherst College and Lane Theological College. As a missionary preacher he lectured Indiana frontiersmen on gambling, drinking and wenching. In 1861 Beecher became editor of the Independent and was drawn into the most unfortunate part of his career. His assistant, a brilliant, erratic journalist named Theodore Tilton, and the owner of the paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Beechers | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...They were never delivered. Apparently acting under orders from the main office, Captain Van Dulken privately told his passengers that they would have to disembark either at Boulogne or Southampton. The news was quietly received by all but the returning athletes who were looking forward to a Jimmy Walker wel come at the quayside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: In Rotterdam | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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