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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main Bulletin Board of Lowell House there is now hanging a little strip of silk. It is not a large or particularly brilliant spot of color but it represents all that is implicit in the name of Lowell House. It is the Lowell House tie. It will, perhaps, not add much to the sartorial splendor of the carefree house member. It will not spruce up the drabness of last years grey flannels. But it will convey a jaunty mark of distinction. In the drawing rooms of Back Bay hearts will palpitate as the Lowell tie swings into the receiving line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH | 3/25/1932 | See Source »

...Spot, Publisher Putnam is shrewd enough to attempt to elevate the moral tone of his volume by making it a "document against war." He hopes that peace societies will buy and distribute The Horror of It on the theory that war is the best propaganda against war. To add to the book's respectability, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rockefeller pastor, and Carrie Chapman Catt were enlisted to write forewords on the peace theme. Dr. Fosdick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Horrors | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...believes have lately begun to be interested in the cinema-bankers, editors, ministers, scientists, socialites, teachers, writers-were mailed 150,000 small blue leaflets, containing ballots. On each ballot were listed 34 species of cinema under six generic heads. Voters were asked to check their favorite kind of cinema, add remarks. Twelve million more such ballots will be distributed, by mail and in theatres, in the next six months. Ten thousand ballots returned last week showed that: 1) educated cinemaddicts are fondest of animated cartoons, particularly Mickey Mouse; 2) cinemaddicts of lower mental rating prefer subdivisions of Drama, like "spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hays Poll | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...stock exchanges. Broad though the range of the inquiry was, most Senators realized that its real target was short sales on the New York Stock Exchange. From President Hoover down, many a U. S. citizen has long believed that such sales maliciously depress the market, add to hard times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Target for Blunderbuss | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...hope of solving the mystery by analysis of dreams, but are solely interested in collecting data on interesting phonomena. A great deal of valuable scientific information was added to the knowledge of sleeping experience when the clinic collected dreams about Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight. The psychologists hope to add to their material stories of dreams experienced by people all over the country following the disappearance of the child...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report Lindbergh Dreams | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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