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Word: probing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts dug up from old investigations was that John Milton was Frank Hague's personal banker. John Milton's checks, for instance, paid for the $6,250-per-year mayor's $125,000 estate. The mayor always reimbursed his lawyer in cash. When investigators started to probe John Milton's own affairs, he blandly declared that he had just decided to retire and had unfortunately destroyed all his records. Then he laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Birthday Present | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...possible angles are overlooked in the searching probe, as successive questions demand, "Are you afraid of chorus girls?"; "Are you engaged?"; and "Are you married?". Going even further than late permission slips at Wellesley, the blank asks, "What do you expect to do on this date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean's Signature on Application Blank Needed to Rate Date with Chorus Girl | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean's Signature on Application Blank Needed to Rate Date with Chorus Girl | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

These three men sought the realities of nature and instantaneous vision. Of the three Liebermann alone remained true to the impressionist manifesto. Slevogt wandered off into Rococo day dreams and Corinth soon became tired of mere surface reality and tried to probe beneath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/12/1938 | See Source »

...principle purpose of the probe is to find out whether the four week period for keeping books should be reduced to two, and also if it would enable applicants for those books to get them sooner. In order to determine this it will be necessary to check carefully the lists of all books asked for and out of the library at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBRARIANS PROBE LENDING TIME OF WIDENER VOLUMES | 11/6/1937 | See Source »

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