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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some years ago while I was serving as Sheriff of Mobile County, Ala. a Mobile policeman was shot down and killed by a criminal Negro who was apprehended and lodged in jail. Feeling ran high and word was brought to me that types described by the Attorney General were organizing to take and lynch the prisoner. I had several of them brought to the sheriff's office and said to them: "I want to make you a proposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1937 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Confidentially Mr. van Zeeland's visit to Princeton is just educational. Yes, that's the very word, 'educational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Educational Is the Word | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...surname and christened him George Washington. One night the baby and his mother were stolen by raiders. The mother was never heard of again but agents of Moses Carver found the baby and got him back by swapping a race horse. In childhood George Washington Carver mastered every word in his spelling book. Finding himself a free but penniless orphan, he got what schooling he could in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, supporting himself by odd jobs. In six years at Iowa State College he won his bachelor's and master's degrees, showed such ability in agricultural chemistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peanut Man | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...time when the metal could be shipped at a profit to New York seemed to indicate that the bank must have been tipped off on a coming cut. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau did not help matters by denying that a cut was "imminent." The Secretary had used the word "imminent" before in similar denials, and London fastened on it to the exclusion of the rest of the statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold Panic | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...money looks better than gold, and hoarded gold is coming out to swell the record flood of newly-mined metal. Virtually all the gold that came on the market last week was disgorged by frightened hoarders. When the hoarders get really panicky only one thing will calm them: a word from President Roosevelt. At his Friday press conference, the President emphatically declared that there was nothing to worry about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold Panic | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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