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Word: wipes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common (currently worth $3.50 a share), Oldster Brady announced that his lawyers would ask the Philadelphia District Court for a rehearing on the plan, that if nobody else would fight it he would alone. Brady's objections to Baldwin's plan were two: 1) it would "virtually wipe out common stockholders"; 2) if reorganization had been necessary in 1935, when the plan was sanctioned by a special master, it did not follow that reorganization was still necessary in 1936. Mr. Brady's second objection made particularly good sense in the light of recent business statistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Brady, Baldwin & Boom | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...College into the possession of the College in 1644, the bequest of Richard Harris, an early resident and Fellow Commoner and the brother-in-law of Henry Dunster, this is the oldest bit of College Silver now extant. As fingers were used entirely while eating, the dainty students would wipe their fingers (before dipping them into the salt) upon the napkin which rested on the three knobs which may be seen on the rim. The napkin also aided in keeping flies from the salt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBINSON EXHIBITS EARLY AMERICANISM | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...Church will have an opportunity to expel presumably guilty priests, nuns or friars from its ranks so that they can go to trial as lay persons. Such sudden action appeared to mean that Adolf Hitler, just now more attracted than ever by Nazi schemes of launching a war to wipe Bolshevism out of Russia, was prepared to take at something like face value overtures of aid made to Der Führer last week by German cardinals and bishops meeting at Fulda with a legate from the Pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Woe to Wotan | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...killed, so far as the U. S. is concerned, when Dr. Schacht completely suspended payments in Aski Marks. He also killed "Barter Marks." In the past more than 50% of all German-U. S. trade has been conducted in Aski Marks for "essentials" and Barter Marks for "nonessentials." To wipe out these two was to deal deadly blows to trade. Yet Dr. Schacht followed with a third wallop which put out of action even ordinary Registered Marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Marks of War | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

give us a wipe for the love of Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Zululand | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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