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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigorous entertainment medium. There has probably never been a moment in the world's history when more exciting things were going on than in 1939. That Hollywood can supply no better salute to 1939 than a $2,000,000 rehash, however expert, of Rudyard Kipling and brown Indians in bed sheets, is a sad reflection on its state of mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...producer is the Frood Mine near Sudbury, Ont., discovered by Prospector Thomas Frood, who sold his claim for $30,000. Deep beneath tall smelter chimneys and black slag mounds, its shafts bite 3,425 feet into the earth; from its honeycomb of stopes come 12,000 tons of nut-brown ore every working day. A ton of Frood ore contains 95 pounds of copper, 47 pounds of nickel, and the farther the shafts pierce toward the earth's core the richer the ore becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Future Assured | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Quebec-born, of a French Canadian mother and an Irish engineer father, ruddy, grey-maned John B. is 45, lives comfortably in suburban Larchmont, N. Y. plans to taper off on radio work to devote his time to developing a fictional sleuth to succeed Chesterton's Father Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Voice of the People | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Varsity and Freshman wrestling teams both scored victories over Brown, the former by a 15-9 score, the latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Results | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Jack Waldron's close second in the 2:38 breaststroke would have been just the thing needed to keep the victory streak of the Ulen men unbroken against the Brown Bruins. And Phil Walker in third place was also under the 2:42 time which won the event for the Bruins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Submerge Colgate Maroons 64 to 11 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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