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Word: beste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortyish Mary K. Browne, national women's tennis champion in 1912-13-14 and runner-up for the national golf title in 1924, who, playing for fun while on vacation from teaching tennis in an Ohio school, got a 79, fifth best score in the qualifying round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golfermes | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

These figures for 164 days of operation do not yet include the month of August (the Fair's,best so far) nor do they show that practically the entire operating profit was made in the last two months of the six accounted for. In 124 days (Aug. 1 to Dec. 2) to go the Fair has a good chance of breaking even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Regilded Gate | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...science of how best to depopulate the earth. Genetics is the science of how best to populate it. Last week the Science of Genetics received more than its normal amount of attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: When Gene Meets Gene | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Complete Sadness." In Edinburgh 500 members of the International Genetical Congress met to discuss chances of creating healthier, more intelligent human beings. Absent from the meeting for political reasons best known to the Soviet Government were 50 Russian delegates, including the head of the Congress, famed Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, who is out of favor in Russia because he does not believe in the long-outmoded inheritance of acquired characteristics (TIME, June 26). Communists prefer to believe in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Called home from the meeting were all the European delegates. Professor Gunnar Dahlberg of Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: When Gene Meets Gene | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...because it has made the men's clothing industry advertising-conscious. Women like it because it has changed the clothing habits of the American male. Men's clothing advertisers like it because it is the U. S. male Vogue. Men like it because it is still the best smoking-room magazine in the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scribner's to the Smoking Room | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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