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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake Placid, N. Y., at a celebration of his 97th birthday, Negro Lyman Epps stood up, quavered "Blow Ye the Trumpets, Blow.'' Nonagenarian Epps remembered that he had sung the same song at John Brown's funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...first reunion class, '35, came as dictators, marching behind a German band. Some wore brown shirts, for Hitler; some black shirts, for Mussolini; some red shirts, for Stalin, and some the white shirt, white ducks and panama of Fisherman Roosevelt. They raised beer cans in a fascist salute. Said their placards: Frankie is just a lot of Frankfurter, Beware of Third Termites, When bigger and better dictators are made, he'll be a Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Barbed Confetti | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Within just two minutes and four seconds, Brown Bomber Louis gave all this elaborate and expensive machinery every bit of use it needed. When the books were balanced, NBC could count as maximum paper loss the profit on time charges for what might have been an additional broadcasting hour, came out with a profit on the flat rate Buick paid for the fight, the 15 minutes of time sold. Buick lost the potential advertising mentions planned at three or four round intervals, put on the air the longer opening and closing announcements. These totaled three minutes and 48 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Profit & Loss | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

News-vendors, who are constantly in contact with the public, must look respectable and belong to an honorable corporation. They will have to wear polished shoes and a brown blouse extending below their knees; and they must shave daily. The police will be empowered to take drastic action against defaulters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Respectable Vendors | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...MOUNTAINS AND THE STARS- Valentin Tikhonov-Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peculiar Horror | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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