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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduce a method of approach which allows the tackling of a problem according to its peculiar conditions. "What I do want is to make the young people realize how inexhaustible the means of creation are if they make use of the innumerable modern products of our age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gropius Seeks "Unbiased, Original, Elastic" Approach to Architecture | 5/20/1937 | See Source »

...court and stimulated would-be writers by sharpening their interests and widening their contacts. Ill health and advancing years have crippled his frame but left his spirit youthful. He has been known to complain that he comes of long-lived Maine stock, and that his grandfather died at the age of ninety-two, not from sickness or natural causes, but because an elm tree fell upon him and crushed him. Professor Copeland at that age would also still be vigorous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/18/1937 | See Source »

...meeting of the Twenty Year Service Club of Goodrich employes. Because Mr. Tew has long been known as one of the hardest-working executives in Akron, he was readily believed, readily understood when he announced that he was retiring as active head of the great rubber company at the age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...151touched a little by reading Proust," slept with a handsome swimming instructor who "smelt like a spaniel that's just had a bath," brooded over missing out on a rich, titled Englishman. The Senator's sorrows were bad arteries, a dipsomaniac sister. President Winthrop's "New Age" amateurs swarming over Washington. In spite of the perfect April weather he got to his office in a fit of the blues, moped through the morning over the vanished glories of his past, looked sadly at his trout flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Practical Politics | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Born" is heartily recommended for your enjoyment. It is the first film in Technicolor where color does not have the leading role, (there is but one sunset scene, and that one is very effective); it is the first film in many years that Miss Gaynor has looked the age of the person she portrays; it should be the first film you see on your next visit...

Author: By V. F., | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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