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Word: ageing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been their lack of opportunity to design churches to look like what they are: auditoria. Chief obstacles have been the clergy's caution and a widespread public conviction that ecclesiastical architecture is divorced from the common clay of other 20th Century buildings, should reflect age-old architectural traditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Father's Nightmare | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...short, broad nose, Neanderthal Man was no beauty, but he had just as big a brain and far better teeth than men of today. He made good tools, ceremoniously buried his dead, found shelter by intrepidly evicting bears from their caves. Near the close of the Glacial Age he was replaced by more modern types of men, who apparently feasted on Neanderthal carcasses. But while he lasted, as the Asiatic find made clear last week, Neanderthal Man got around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Precious Child | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...timeserver but a sincere, bewildered wrong-guesser who believed that Catholicism could honestly come to terms with Hitlerism. Praising the Cardinal's attempts at conciliation, the Commonweal said last week of his experience at Konigsbrunn: "It is one of the few classic tragedies in our melodramatic age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Classic Tragedy | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...told by Dr. George Willard Frasier, president of Colorado State College of Education, that old-age pensions were robbing youth of school funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teachers Meet | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...further proof of their inability to lower prices until huge new audiences are found, publishers point to Modern Age Books, which two years ago set out to publish paperbound original editions at 35? to 50?. Backed by the Richard Storrs Childs fortune, Modern Age advertised heavily, cut costs by using the Rumford Press between printings of Reader's Digest, set up elaborate distribution machinery. Its losses the first year (attributed in part to inexperience) were reported at around $500,000. Since then Modern Age prices have risen nearer the $1 level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap Books | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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