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Word: worthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have felt the censorship of Catholics on insipid and obscene motion pictures and you also will feel this same strong censorship on the same type of magazines in a very short while. I close with this question to you, the editors of TIME: Are these few dollars you receive worth the damage you might have done or might do to many thousands of human beings? I pray to God to give you grace to see the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...Rockwood, father of six children, had been a highly respectable wrecking contractor. Hard times set him to stealing and his regular crew asked no questions when he sent them, to dismantle the Diener factory. After moving out safes, typewriters, files and adding machines from the office and $30,000 worth of machinery from the plant, they proceeded on Mr. Rockwood's orders to tear down a three-car garage, a brick mill, a woodcutting shed 100 ft. by 30 ft. From the Steven plant, which had been closed since 1933, Wrecker Rockwood's men took, among other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Wrecker | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...diameters can be magnified dimly by the mammoth machine, but its chief value lies in its 4000 to 6000 diameter work. Here it has picked up flecks of gold so small that 40 billion of them would be worth only one cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Graton Discusses His Giant, Newly Perfected One Ton Microscope | 12/4/1937 | See Source »

Completing last week their autumn program which included the publishing of more than 30 books, the Harvard University Press will issue no more books until next year. Seven of the books published this Fall are especially worth noting, according to David T. Pottinger '06, associate director of the Press. They are as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Presses Stop Till Next Year; Pottinger Names Outstanding Autumn Books | 12/2/1937 | See Source »

...outsider by a long shot. Charles H. Swift stays as chair-man of the board. Gustavus F. Swift and Harold H. Swift, as vice chairmen, intend to let Mr. Holmes take care of the routine matters involved in managing a business which sells nearly a billion dollars worth of meat and provisions annually and is expected to make as much money this year as last when it reported profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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