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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany and Austria have pronounced Giannini a great dramatic artist. Toscanini chose her to sing in Falstaff at the Salzburg Festival last summer (TIME, Sept. 2), chose her again for his General Motors broadcast and for his forthcoming performance of the Verdi Requiem. But Father Giannini waited until last week to form his own opinion, then said: "I always think my Dusolina, she has a very nice voice. Now I believe she acts very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Aida from Philadelphia | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Although the majority on the W. P. A. rolls are unskilled workers, yet there are many technical and professional workers, for, states Ridder, "the depression chose its victims from no one class of the population...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ridder Claims Boon-doggling Misused When Applied to WPA Administration | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

...pipe. The defense called Dr. Blake Colburn Wilbur, son of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur and best man at the Lamsons' wedding, to substantiate its contention that Mrs. Lamson killed herself accidentally by falling in the tub, striking her head against a nearby washstand. The jury chose to believe the prosecution, found David Lamson guilty of murder in the first degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death For Nothing? | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Hanfstaengl blundered first. Instead of doing the usual and unostentatious thing and contributing to the general class twenty-fifth reunion gift, he chose to give his thousand dollars separately and individually, with great fanfare. The rest of his class contributed as a class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANFSTAENGL | 2/13/1936 | See Source »

President Conant chose to make an issue of this gift, refusing it as ostentatiously as it had been proffered, and seizing the opportunity to take a crack at the government of a great nation. Probably, except to the student who missed out on the year in Germany, the opportunity to prove Harvard's militant liberalism was worth a thousand dollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANFSTAENGL | 2/13/1936 | See Source »

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