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Word: againe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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-en route to zero as the time for model changes approaches.*But if the motor industry's sales were small, last week its purchases-of one material, at least-were big. The buying power of Detroit itself is in the hands of auto purchasing agents, the best bargain hunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Buying Week | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

This plea, crooned in a soft baritone over the twanging of a cracked and patched guitar, once swayed Texas' Governor Pat Morris Neff into granting a pardon to the coal-black, swampland Negro who sang it. The Negro, Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lead Belly | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

But last week it was the old story. Standing in Manhattan General Sessions, greying, 54-year-old Lead Belly once again heard a jury pronounce him guilty. Offense: stabbing and slashing Henry Burgess, another Negro, at a party in a Westside rooming house.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lead Belly | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

At the end of this period-when his farm finally sank under him, Frost took to schoolteaching again - the Frosts thought of moving into even deeper isolation, considered going to Vancouver. At this juncture Mrs. Frost made the only romantic remark her husband ever heard her make: "Let's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Muse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Undesirable in its Harvard Square forms because it makes a farce of true education. Students pass examinations, they do not learn as a result of their cramming. And again, because such tutoring mocks Harvard's standards and degrades her degree, it should be exterminated. If the tutoring is by Wolff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT OPINION | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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