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Word: chaires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsmen, calculating roughly on their cuffs, figured that Mr. Morgenthau's services to the Government would thus terminate in about nine months-unless Congress saw fit to move its chair back to higher ground. That move is just what the next session of Congress is expected to make, with only a modicum of fuss-but the Republican fuss can be counted on to be more than a modicum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Death and Taxes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...John Reed Society asked me to chair their protest meeting Wednesday night with the feeling that a non-member of the society, interested, however, in the question of academic freedom which has been raised, would be free from a charge of partiality in the conduct of the meeting. But the intellectual sincerity of all of us who joined in protest against an abridgment of our traditional academic liberty has been seriously challenged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

...Brighton, Pa., Health Officer Fred Myers, called by neighbors to investigate a house in which gas lights had shone night and day for two weeks, found a dead man sitting in a chair, an open book beside him. Said the man's widow: "I thought there was something wrong. He wouldn't talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...first time, Chicago will see sculpture of Michelangelo in the original (a bas-relief Madonna and Child), Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, Mantegna's St. George, Raphael's Madonna and the Chair. Despite official denials, it is fairly obvious that Italy's masterpieces will tour the U. S. until World War II blows over. In explaining why the show was given to Chicago rather than New York City, suave Prince Colonna observed that the latter was "too near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Italy to Chicago | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...remember his lines, he delivers an address on how embarrassing it is to lose your memory. Once, unable to stand up, he played all through the show sitting down. Another time, when he couldn't even issue from dressing room to stage, he said: "Get me a wheel chair, I'll play Lionel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Scotch Mist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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