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Word: arens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue. Imagine a grown-up magazine devoting a whole column to ''finger counting"-the lowest form of human amusement. Incredible! What if Senor Calles' baby appeared rather suddenly-what if a flock of ''old ladies of both sexes" write you about it-aren't you BIG enough to say nothing? Grow up! FRANK J. TONIS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...pleasure. One stays there just long enough to make one's fortune. Everyone works as hard as possible, for as few years as possible. . . . You live there, you whistle, you answer 'O.K.' to everything, and you only die at the last moment, very quickly. You aren't born there (a pregnant woman is never seen in the streets); and you don't die there either. As soon as anyone has breathed his last, he is immediately driven off very fast in a Packard to the funeral parlor, where he is laid out and painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Manhattan* | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...aren't the men smoking?" she questioned crisply. "Let them all smoke! In fact, I want a cigaret myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gaspers for One | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...this case, to the works of man. It is a question if either one is a valuable addition. Football is a boys game: it is not a man's livelihood. All these trappings reduce a team to a Frankenstein constructed for the purpose of crushing other Frankensteins. They aren't necessary elements of any game. An espionage by camera might just as well be carried on in baseball. A slow motion picture would show the batting weakness of a rival college, or it would prove the exact trajectory of a star pitcher's out drop. But it wouldn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVOID THAT FILM | 11/5/1930 | See Source »

...follow our excellent example?" he continued. "We are the only nation in the world so proud of our manufactures that we never pretend them to be anything but what they are! Aren't you proud of your products? Why do you endeavor to make the world believe your goods are British by establishing factories here in order to offset British competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Taunt | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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