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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cabinet colleagues of Mr. Baldwin after this, adopted an attitude of stoicism, hoped that distinguished U. S. citizens arriving for the Coronation will realize that both the Prime Minister and the new King-Emperor mean well, that "it is really underlings who are to blame." For example, an unusual British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: New King & Ham Toast | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

The boiling and bubbling of Author Hutchinson's cauldron never ceases. It begins when lovely little Renée Séverin, wife of a French officer, leaves the tropics to take her two children to the ancestral home of the Séverins in northern France. The most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Evil Demons | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Scientists have long known that there are electrical potentials in the brain, charted the brain waves as wavy lines with amplifiers and oscillographs. Iowa State's Professor Lee Edward Travis and Co-worker Abraham Gottlober heard a colleague from Harvard declare that every brain had its electric individuality. Investigating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brain Prints | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Central figure in the show is the U. S. "Secretary of Entertainment" in an unnamed President's Cabinet. Impersonated by old Joe Whitehead, one of Madison Street's great grey-derby-&-checked-veit comics 30 years ago, this character is a veteran ham determined to spend lots of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATRE: Federal Flier | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Best character sketch is that of Shorty Harris, grouchy, restless, simple-minded prospector who tramped Death Valley for 50 years, found five rich mines, got almost nothing for them. When he found The Bullfrog in 1904 a saloon keeper kept him drunk for three weeks, got him to sell his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold & Death | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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