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Word: appearently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Please help the nation's tall girls and short men by telling us how the photographer made Lois appear 12 1/2 inches shorter than she really is. Or could there be one or two press agents' errors in the official heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...laws under which a French wife has been almost as much under her husband's authority as though she were a minor child, unable to sign a check without his countersignature, helpless to make a will or contract without his express approval, unable to leave France or appear on the stage in France should he forbid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Head of the Family | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Echoed and re-echoed throughout the Cantos are two ancient legends-the Homeric tale of Odysseus' journey through Hades, the Ovidian tale of the seamen who, while kidnapping Bacchus, were transformed to dolphins as their ship, becalmed, sprouted grape-laden vines. The legends appear indiscriminately in ancient. Renaissance and modern dress, according to whichever time or whatever place Poet Pound's eruditely literate, expatriated sensibilities lead him to be thinking about. The resultant confusion is only skin-deep -since to any man, anywhere, any time, life may seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contra Naturam | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...Nazis. The reduction of university enrollments, which, by the way, set in two years before Hitler came to power, and which had been an unrealized aim of Republican educational policy, was clearly an answer to restriction of opportunity in society at large, however regrettable this social restriction may appear to have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mail | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

...certain were political observers at the Capitol that the bill had not a chance of passing the Legislature that even Foley did not appear optimistic yesterday. His only comment was, "I can't tell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sponsor Says College Property Tax Designed to Meet General Expenses | 2/17/1938 | See Source »

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