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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most German Faith dedications this Easter were held wherever the sponsors could find an attractive rolling meadow, a bit of what Reichswart called "the primeval German land-the Germanic inheritance. How great and how simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Alien Gods! | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...greenhouse was designed by Dr. John Morris Arthur, who last week indulged in a bit of Utopian prophecy: "This new machine will let the suburban householder plug in his greenhouse just as he plugs in his vacuum cleaner. It is almost foolproof in operation and all he will have to do is tend to his plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plantarium | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...There you go already," said the Owl, a bit perturbed at Alice's logic, "you're saying it will be wonderful not too wonder, but, as you ought to be able to see, a thing that is wonderful is simply something that's full of wonder. Consequently, is there's nothing to wonder at, nothing will be wonderful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/26/1935 | See Source »

...present the most important man in the organization is Clifford Odets, who has revealed himself as not just an actor of bit parts, but as a playwright who can turn out the sort of thing the Group wants to do. Unconsciously he gathered material for Awake and Sing! during his 20- year residence in The Bronx. Now 28, he spent his professional apprenticeship as a spear-carrier on the road in stock and with the Guild, serving as a radio announcer in between times. He wrote Waiting for Lefty while the Group was in Boston last year. He says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 8, 1935 | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

Author Louis Paul feels filial to the U. S., but instead of a mammy song he has written a novel which amply vents his feelings: "The country is fecund, heartwarming, uncritical-like a mother. Sordid things there are always there; it is necessary to look about a bit for beauty." Author Paul has looked & looked, seems not quite sure what his view adds up to. He modestly dedicates The Pumpkin Coach to Critic Burton Rascoe, who once avowed: "I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing." But Author Paul does not do himself justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Companions, U. S. | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

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