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Word: wiped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government makes a profit of 50% on each one-cent piece coined. The Lambert Plan calls for the coining of 90 billion dollars worth of one-cent pieces. The profit, 45 billion dollars, will be used to wipe out the national debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...companies began replacing old ice wagons with enameled delivery trucks, streamlined and enclosed. Instead of open collar and rubber backsheet, icemen began to wear natty uniforms and bow ties; to use instead of ice tongs drip-proof canvas carriers; to wipe up water when they accidentally spilled it on the floor, to shun the honest word "icebox" and call it "ice refrigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Ice Renaissance | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...been talking, my army has been doing." He turns to Mussolini for help. "Do you suppose," barks Il Duce, "that I am going to ruin my country to make you emperor of the universe?" He turns to the diplomat, taunting him that England will not fight. "Fight? We shall wipe you off the face of the earth!" He turns defiantly to them all: "I shall sweep through Poland like a hurricane." "Do so by all means, Comrade," coos the Commissar. "When you have finished, you will settle with me how much of it you may keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Toronto: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Cambridge police officers have been ordered to launch a strenuous campaign designed to wipe out overnight parking in the vicinity of Harvard," Timothy F. Leahy, chief of police, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chief Leahy Starts Campaign Against Overnight Parking | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

BUCHAREST--A new military government, using stern measures to wipe out remnants of the Nazi Iron Guard organization, tonight lined up and shot nine of the Nazi terrorists who assassinated Premier Armand Calinescu in the main street of the city...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

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