Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Paris last week came word that Germany, angered by President Roosevelt's and Secretary Hull's speeches against autarchy (TIME, Aug. 29), had declined to negotiate with U. S. Director George Rublee of the Intergovernmental Refugee Bureau. In Berlin, applications by German and Austrian Jews for admission to the U. S. still swamped the U. S. Embassy. The quota is 27,370 per annum. Jews can take only 8% of their wealth out of Germany. Until the President and Mr. Hull sounded off, they had hoped that Director Rublee and his negotiators could up this...
...tremendous sensation whistling over the salt at 347 miles an hour. Whistling is the only word I know to describe it." Thus spoke mustachioed, 41-year-old Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, British auto racer, after driving his seven-ton, eight-wheeled, 3,600-h.p. Thunderbolt 13 miles along a black line on Utah's famed Bonneville salt flats one morning last week. His time for the measured mile (preceded by six to speed up and six to slow down) was the fastest land mark ever made-*-36 miles an hour faster than the world's record...
...affiliated with the studios, a quarter from independents. Most of it will be spent on newspaper advertising. There will also be radio programs, six trailers, a contest in which 5,404 people will win a total of $250,000 by answering questions about 30 films and writing a 50-word essay. Sample question: "What did Snow White's stepmother coax her to eat in order to cast a spell over her?-a mince pie, an apple, a strawberry tart, or a roast duck?" Sample essay: "Snow White made me feel like a child again. . . ." Print order...
More remarkable than the fact that one of the most active gadders in the U. S. can find time to turn out a daily column is the fact that in doing so she has consistently avoided making serious boners. Without being maudlin or saying an ill word of anyone, she generally manages to say what she means. But most gratifying to millions of women readers who write her thousands of letters is Mrs. Roosevelt's ability to make the nation's most exalted household seem like anybody else's: "The White House is crowded with guests these...
...lifted the tip of the umbrella form the sidewalk, mumbled a word and fell in with the other's rapid stride...