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Word: companionably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companion book to Your Wings, Funk & Wagnalls last fall published Jordanoff's Through the Overcast, a course in weather and instrument flying done in the same pithy, well-illustrated style. By itself and packaged with Your Wings it has thus far sold 10,000 copies in the U. S., is still going at the rate of about 500 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pithy Primer | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Several Radcliffe girls were found to be among the singers of the petition. Miss Vivian Wolfe, pretty blonde Freshman said: "The Harvard boys need a course like that -- badly." However her companion, Miss Alice Barr, Radcliffe '40 assured that "they know enough already." Miss Jane Samble, Radcliffe '40 deplored: "Even such a course wouldn't make a Harvard man fir for marriage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marital-Minded Students Sign Petition For "Practical Sociological Course" | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

Basil Cochrane Newton, British Minister at Prague, who delivered the British ultimatum to President Eduard Benes, and John Troutbeck, first secretary of the British Legation at Prague, were made a Knight Commander and a Companion, respectively, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador at Berlin, was made a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, adviser to Viscount Runciman, the British "observer" in Czechoslovakia last summer, and William Strang, the Foreign Office Counselor who accompanied Mr. Chamberlain to Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich, became Companions of the Order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honors | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...books and files. There, working from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., day after day, intrepid Lexicographer Scholes laboriously wrote out the whole of his million-word book. When he had finished, he had covered 132 acres of paper weighing ten tons. Scholarly Scholes's one-man Companion had one ingredient that made it unique among music dictionaries: charm. Only half the size of the two U. S. dictionaries, it is a masterpiece of condensation and cross-referencing, is beautifully illustrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Million-Word Charm | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...OXFORD COMPANION TO MUSIC-Oxford University Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Million-Word Charm | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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