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Word: againe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just turned 77, hale again after his first absence (six weeks) because of illness in nine years, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes last week returned to the U. S. Supreme Court. For his first chore he had the pleasant duty of swearing in the Court's newest and youngest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Douglas In, Streaker In | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Alarms. By lining up on their side Eastern European countries from the Baltic to the Aegean, the British and French did much to restore the balance of power that had recently been weighted heavily in the dictators' favor. They also convinced many an observer that war had been made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Worst Week | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

By 1923 Wright had published nine scholarly books (What Nietzsche Taught, The Future of Painting, etc.), had worked himself into a nervous breakdown that turned his luck again. He spent two years in bed, unable to read, one more year reading and analyzing detective stories, the heaviest fare his doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Monocled Journalist | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Not in many years had they seen such an exhibition of jumping, crouching and beating the air as this slippery-skulled Greek gave them. But under his jumping-jack direction the staid Boston Symphony, churned into a lather of excitement, surpassed itself. Delighted Boston critics gave Mitropoulos full marks, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Minneapolis' Mitropoulos | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

In 1930, although every U. S. State had laws requiring that all children be schooled, some 800,000 U. S. children of elementary school age had no school to go to. Most of them were in poor farm areas that could not maintain a school. Hard times and a slump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: S. O. S. | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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