Search Details

Word: armsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

"There is a kind of electric interchange between a teacher and his students.: He raised his arms in a gesture of benediction and farewell; the evation was loud and long.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "No Apologia to Give," Lowes Remarks As He Ends 20 Years of Teaching Here | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

> Theatre was injected into the hearings by Actress Helen Hayes. Divesting herself of the majesty which for three years she has worn in Victoria Regina, she threw herself into the role of plain "Mrs. Charles MacArthur," mother of two."* She recalled her grandmother's stories about eight brothers & sisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Little Refugees | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Monarchists. Meanwhile another reason was advanced for the delay of Dictator Franco's victory parade: he was afraid to demobilize. A Paris dispatch to the New York Times told of troubles the fascist-minded Spaniards (including the Generalissimo) were having with the Carlists, the monarchy-loving Spaniards of northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Delays and Demands | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

In the U. S. Captain von Papen is remembered for his melodramatic attempts in 1914-15, when he was a military attache in Washington, to sabotage ships and arms factories serving the Allies. He was suspected of implication in the famed Black Tom explosion. Only an apprentice plotter at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Iscariot to Ankara | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

In Washington, D. C. the U. S. Treasury Department's Procurement Division sought "one male human skeleton, with bones of a single individual." Specifications: removable arms, legs, feet, skull, one removable hand, one horizontal skull cut. Purpose: exhibition at the Marine Hospital, St. Louis.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | Next