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Word: carnivaleers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The other portion, blended with the first and running parallel to it, is the equally romantic but far more vigorous story of the discovery of oil in western Pennsylvania. The home-drilled well that Peter Cortlandt has rigged up behind his grandmother's house comes in the day of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Of the tried & true ingredients for large-scale musical melodrama, High, Wide and Handsome omits none, from folk dancing to the scene in which Sally, temporarily estranged from her husband, sings in a tent show. Produced by Arthur Hornblow in the magniloquent tradition of screen plays like Showboat and San...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Bolivar County lies down on the rich delta lands of Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Arkansas River. In 1887, when the track of what is now the dinky Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad was laid, Bolivar's rich bottomlands were an uninhabited jungle. The railroad, eager for customers along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Mound Bayou | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

¶ The German Davis Cup tennis team, headed by Baron Gottfried von Cramm, this year's runner-up at Wimbledon: the European Zone final matches against Czechoslovakia's team; in Berlin. Germany this week plays the U. S. for the right to meet Great Britain, Davis Cup defender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jul. 19, 1937 | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Painting: Clifford Edgar Jones of Kokomo, Ind., a student at the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis. He brought his school its first Prix de Rome for Carnival, a lively, crowded circus scene.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prix de Rome | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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