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Word: beaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera fans the first public appearance of a new soprano or tenor is as exciting as the trial spin of a new Class-J sloop is to yachtsmen. Last week Manhattan's debutasters trooped to the Metropolitan Opera House to size up the beam, rig and probable speed of two of the Metropolitan's brand-new singers. Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago. But that was not enough for Manhattan. For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Singers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Michael Beam-Richard Matthews Hallet-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). As in many another recent frontier romance, Michael Beam likes Indians better and his creator writes more cautiously than used to be the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...huge beam of "black light" to black out the moon, thus deny moonlight to nocturnal air raiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ideas for War | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Ford: 42 body and chassis types, 6 wheelbases, three motor sizes (60, 85, 90 h.p.), prices from $675 to $985. Sealed beam headlights and swank Ford car hoods are features of city models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...King Carol and Magda rode out the storm. With Teutonic tenacity he remained faithful to a mistress who grew broad of beam and middleaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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