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Word: bring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest cartoonist of the time, amuses himself with periodic laughs at Beaverbrook's expense in the Evening Standard. A sample is Low's picture of Beaverbrook at Christmas time, the press lord a tiny figure mailed like Richard the Lion-Hearted, catechizing Santa Claus for failing to bring enough Empire-made toys down his chimney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...corn farmers'. In Kansas, the sentiment of wheat farmers was even more plain. Said Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace: "The outstanding conclusion ... is that people do not like business depressions.... The new Congressmen will probably be correct in concluding that they have a mandate from the people to ... bring about a greater income for farmers. . . . Here they come, fresh from the people. . . . Let's see what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Grand Sashay | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Duchess, stopped off in Paris on the way home from an East African hunting trip to spend Armistice Day with the Windsors. Friends intimated that the meeting had been arranged and approved by King George, who has long been anxious for Queen Mary's sake to bring the Duke of Windsor back into the royal family circle. The King's private plane flew the Gloucesters from Marseille to Paris and the British Embassy arranged the details of the meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...bring U. S. television out of the laboratory, engineers have several tough nuts to crack. DuMont's head man, Allen B. DuMont, boasts that he holds the broken shells of three of the toughest. Hitherto each television station has been using six megacycles, almost six times the total wavelength space filled by 745 licensed stations in the U. S. broadcast band. The DuMont transmitter has been reduced to a relatively modest three-mega-cycle sprawl. The DuMont transmitting system is said to throw its pictures well beyond television's paltry 50-mile effective range. This it has done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Screen Meets Screen | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Manhattan meeting of the Automotive Safety Foundation. Speaker Cameron was simply drawing a bead on the Foundation's aim to bring about full cooperation of all concerned-driver, pedestrian, manufacturer and roadbuilder-in a widespread highway-safety program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Safety Dividend | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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