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Word: antic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antic Auburn, Usually price-cuts are bad news to a company. Last week when Auburn Automobile Co. cut $300 to $700 from the prices of its cars. President Errett Lobban Cord cheerily stated it was part of a campaign "to put men to work." Motormen noted that Auburn's low prices are now within $200 of Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth, some $300 below its leading competitors in the $900-$1,000 price class. During the first four months of the year Auburn had 1.1% of the total U. S. passenger car business against 1.6% in the same period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...Valera actually becomes president, time alone will reveal his strength. Probably, like most extremists, he will find his rashness modified by responsibility. In the tariff. England has a weapon more powerful than an army. In any case, Ireland's from antic approach to political realities gives a new force to the lines of the poet who said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEN THAT GOD MADE MAD | 2/20/1932 | See Source »

Penrod and Sam (First National). A minor cycle of juvenile comedies (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Skippy, Forbidden Adventure) has immeasurably improved this branch of entertainment in the cinema. Where such pictures a few years ago attempted nothing more ambitious than antic farce, as exemplified in the Our Gang comedies, there is now a fashion for being lifelike as well as funny. The fashion is eminently becoming to Penrod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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