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Word: betweeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Two factors make today's B. E. F. even more informal than the one Sir Philip knew before. Though the caste system still remains between officers & men, it has been broken down somewhat by: 1) removing the ban on officers' hobnobbing with enlisted men off duty; 2) ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Winkles on Pins | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

The fate of City of Flint caused an angry stir in the U. S. State Department (see p. 16). From a naval viewpoint it was much bigger news that the 10,000-ton Deutschland-perhaps also her sisters Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee-was at large as a raider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Deutschland at Large | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Less shouted about than Los Angeles' famed Hollywood Bowl summer concerts are the regular winter programs of Los Angeles' 20-year-old Philharmonic Orchestra. Golden Age of the Los Angeles Philharmonic was between 1919 and 1933, when the late copper tycoon William Andrews Clark Jr. lost $250,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Transfusion | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Their first performance in the Guild Theatre was a sellout, for few Manhattanites had ever seen a temple dance outside of tantalizing glimpses in the movies. For them Devi Dja and her accordion-bellied maidens imitated ancient frescoes, did solemn ritualistic wriggles, proved with deft, complicated gestures that Bali'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Ladies from Bali | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

His theory began to evolve when he noticed a distinction between anthropoid and apish mimicry: children can imitate such actions as shaving and shooting without using razors or guns; but apes cannot, or do not. Père Jousse decided that miming and gesturing came before writing; hieroglyphics, he believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rhythmocatechist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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