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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week brought the "complete surprise" that Squire Baldwin chose to be his deputy a man who must appeal strongly to the pious judgment of the Prime Minister's good wife Lucy. Neither she nor Mr. Baldwin ever pays the slightest attention to newspapers, a circumstance which makes the Prime Minister's acts frequently bewildering to newspaper readers and even more so to their editors. Stanley Baldwin decided to place the Committee of Imperial Defense in the hands of Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Thinking Machine's Inskip | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...Trautman shone at prmoting athletics. He helped high pressure through the new stadium. He made Ohio State a glorious and luxurious home for King Football. The city of Columbus borrowed the go better for its Chamber of and when Promoter Trautman was through, one convention after another chose Columbus, he transferred his skillful hand to the Columbus in the American Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R: Clocks for Laggards | 3/21/1936 | See Source »

...medical names which stand biggest in the minds of the U. S. public are those of surgeons, not of physicians. A meeting of the American College of Physicians in Detroit last week did nothing to alter that fact. The men they chose to honor above all others were a young physiologist who probably will never practice medicine, an old physiologist who never did practice, and a re-articulated paralytic who has created a unique specialty of treating cripples such as he once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physicians in Detroit | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...Metropolitan Opera House seemed altogether satisfied when Beethoven's Fidelia was given there last week, taken out of storage for the first time in six years because Soprano Kirsten Flagstad was on hand to sing the difficult role of Leonore. For his libretto the bachelor Beethoven chose one that extolled marital love and devotion. To be near her husband imprisoned in a dungeon Leonore dresses as a boy, takes a job as the jailer's assistant. Dramatic scene comes when she helps dig her husband's grave, then outwits the tyrant who had plotted his murder. Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dearest Child | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...Livermore Long-cope, was charged with assault with intent to murder, released pending, appearance in court next week. His father, famed stock-trader, flew to Santa Barbara with his third wife, secured legal custody of his son. Last week Son Jesse walked out of the hospital, thin but well, chose to return to his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1936 | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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