Search Details

Word: wipe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...laid it on the shelf until it was over. ... If we're going to get anywhere in this business of getting out of the Depression-of using public funds to stimulate business, we've got to appoint a Director General of Public Works to wipe out these laws and put the buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smith & R. F. C. | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...have learned to keep out. "As soon as apes began to go in families and hordes . . . unselfishness of mothers, devotion of fathers and disinterestedness of friends began to operate. Such a patchwork is homo sapiens. It is hard to imagine any purely terrestrial epidemic or insect scourge that would wipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. at Atlantic City | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

While I realize no apology can wipe out this stigma I take the liberty of calling it to your attention, that we may be spared a repetition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

Announcement of these initial loans last week, five months after the system was created, did not come in time to halt a concerted Senate drive to wipe the Home Loan Bank Board out of existence. Its record of inaction outraged Senator Borah who week before offered a sweeping repealer. Said he: "The act is proving wholly unsatisfactory. We are going to build up a tremendous institution at very great expense without any real benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Loan & Repealer | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

Radio likewise made several financial adjustments last week. The two electric companies agreed to wipe off $8,938,000 of RCA's $17,938,000 debt to them. GE bought Radio's uptown Manhattan building for $4,745,000. Rockefeller Center Inc. at the same time agreed to let RCA reduce the amount of space it has leased, accepting $5,000,000 worth of preferred RCA stock for this concession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Pool Punned | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

Previous | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | Next