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Word: breaths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while I was chronicling the not-too-breath-taking affairs of the Isthmus on noisy Nelson Rounsevell's Panama American, there came to Panama City two Spanish boys in a battered Studebaker touring car. The chassis of the machine was set high on the axles, it had no mudguards, and it looked to be capable of negotiating even a jungle cart trail. On the side flapped a dusty banner proclaiming its destination as "New York, America, U. S. A." At that time no motor road crossed the Isthmus from Panama City (southeast) to Colon (northwest). The Panama Railroad hurdled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...After the Emperor had given Geneva to understand for several days that he would not plead Ethiopia's cause himself before the Assembly, abruptly at the last moment the King of Kings announced that he was entering the fray in person, will "fight to the last gasp of breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Jig Up? | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...offering of the in-town screens is to be found at the Loew's State and Orpheum Theatres in the harrowingly powerful study of lynching which Fritz Lang has created in his picture "Fury." Hailed from all sides as the most significant film of the season it narrates with breath-taking vigor and insight the story of a young man innocently involved in the mad antics of an infuriated mob. Especially noteworthy are the scenes depicting the origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching. Not a pleasant experience...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/17/1936 | See Source »

...this breath-taking proposal to steal a march on the New Deal, Manager Hamilton snapped: "Mr. White will have one vote out of the 18 from Kansas. Nobody is authorized to speak for Landon but Landon himself." Nonetheless Editor White was named Kansas' member of the convention's Resolutions Committee, thereby became wielder of the Landon pen in the writing of the platform. Constitution-loving Candidate Borah denounced the amendment proposal as a "matter of political expediency." But it remained a prime subject of convention talk, especially after Herbert Hoover paused at Ogden, Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Before the Flood | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating man fell in love with the bearded lady, whose place was next his on the sideshow platform. When she spurned him, his love turned to hate. At the next show he suddenly shot his flaming breath at her, singed her precious beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sesquipedalian | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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