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Word: againe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years of teaching school netted him $90, with which he started a weekly newspaper. When it folded, he sold books on the road for three more years, went to Kansas City, studied law, was admitted lo the bar. He quit the law because all the lawyers he saw were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Old Pitch | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Famed throughout Texas grew Pitchfork Smith's thunderous writings, his private battles, his oratorical eloquence. Old timers still quote from his street-corner oration on the death of John Barleycorn, the night before Prohibition took effect. One of his speeches ("When You Die, Will You Live Again?") was so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Old Pitch | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Sixteen days, 19 hours, 4 minutes after leaving New York, Widow Adams was back again. She had flown all the way. Total mileage: 25,000. Cost: $2,500. Chortled she: "That's ten cents a mile. Can you travel cheaper than that?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Round Trip | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Last week, however, it was Pratt & Whitney's turn to smile all over its corporate face. Over its East Hartford, Conn, plant roared a Vultee A19 motored by an engine of the old radial, air-cooled type that was half again as powerful as the Allison. Weighing slightly less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Hot Race | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Effect of the first lilacs on Judge Hardy is to make him an easy prey for a couple of swindlers. Andy and his father eventually cool off, to the accompaniment of such a wealth of domestic detail, adolescent humor and sage headshakings that hyper-domestic cinemaddicts will have a wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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