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Word: bells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubtful that he would have withdrawn his chin even then. All during the first session of the 76th Congress he absorbed attack, going back for more on one issue after another. But now came the terrible closing rounds, as an angry and rebellious Congress fought toward the adjournment bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Taking It | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...many a sentimental reader, the books of Novelist Harold Bell Wright (The winning of Barbara Worth, The calling of Dan Matthews) made many a dream seem to get up and walk. Last week the aged author's solemn son Gilbert went his father one better: he made real people talk like waterfalls, braying donkeys, barking dogs, slamming doors, locomotive whistles. The appropriate place: Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sonovox | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...weight-lifting championships are decided in eight divisions, from 112 Ib. to heavyweight. Champions are determined by their ability in three events: the two-hand military press, the two-hand snatch and the two-hand clean & jerk-in each of which a bar bell is picked off the floor with both hands and raised overhead by different procedures. The total poundage heaved in the three lifts constitutes a contestant's score-unless a lift is nullified because of bad form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bar Bellmen | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...bell-an iron rod seven feet long with removable iron discs on each end (so that weights can be increased or decreased)-is the yardstick of a strongman's brawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bar Bellmen | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...than ever before. She was not only, in Sportswriter Joe Williams' words, "undoubtedly the biggest individual draw sports ever produced," but she was also Hollywood's third-ranking box-office star* with four phenomenally successful pictures behind her and another, just released, well calculated to ring the bell again. Sonja Henie has been called variously Queen of the Ice, Pavlova on Skates and the Nasturtium of the North. But no captioner has hit her off quite so neatly as did Broadway's knowing old verbal free skater, Damon Runyon. Sonja Henie, says admiring Mr. Runyon, is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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