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Word: beaverish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign was a nightmare for the shy, beaverish Hoover who hates crowds, strangers, speechmaking, gladhanding. backslapping. Gritting his teeth behind a sickly smile, he went through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover Halfway | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...bill to expend $144,881,902 for future dam-building, lock-building and channel-dredging last week lay on the desk of the U. S. President who answered "Engineer" to the census occupation-query and who last autumn promised his countrymen just such busy-beaverish legislation (TIME, Nov. 4). At home with this measure above all others, he signed it. Then he said: "It was with particular satisfaction that I signed the Rivers & Harbors bill as it represents the final authorization of the engineering work . . . I have advocated for over five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dams, Locks & Channels | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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