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Word: cave (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role of Disraeli, the ablest member is Producer Zanuck's latest Continental star. Less mannered than unfortunate little Simone Simon, Annabella (real name: Suzanne Charpentier) chatters intelligibly, looks pretty in gamine or Empire costume and chokes to death affectingly during the zobah-hah. Most impressive shot: cave-in of a canal-side cliff dynamited by Turkish guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Leo Frobenius, 65, explorer, ethnologist, anthropologist; at Intra, Lake Maggiore, Italy. In 1912, Frobenius opened up the richest continental deposit of cave paintings and engravings on the first of his twelve African expeditions, subsequently became recognized as a top-rank authority on prehistory. Selections from the mammoth Frobenius collection at Frankfurt-am-Main were last year giving a whopping exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...days later he meets a tousled, green-eyed boy who gives him an ancient amber cup, tells queer tales, disappears in the sea. As other meetings between them follow, Molly keeps sympathetic pace with Henry's lyric excitement, approves his redecorating his house as a green cave, controls her jealousy of his amphibian kinsman. By this time the reader has guessed that Author Dane is not writing a simple triangle fantasy: Henry and Molly symbolize the struggle between the Poet and Domesticity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea Gypsy Legend | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Seek shelter in a cave, depression in the ground, deep valley, foot of a steep cliff, grove of trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Storm Warnings | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...veteran digger of 37 who now commands the Oriental Institute's Megiddo Expedition, was back in Chicago with news that he had penetrated the site down to bedrock, through 20 culture levels dating back to 3,500 B. C. Beneath the oldest level was a stone age cave containing flint instruments and bones. At the 19th level the excavators found a flagged paving in which drawings of horned animals and men had been cut. At the 18th level was a stone fortification wall 15 feet high and 24 feet wide, which indicated that there might have been fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Armageddon | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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