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Word: coms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Largely as a result of Mr. May's criticism, bolstered this week by RFChairman Jesse Jones in a letter to the Finance Com mittee. Administration insistence on the tax bill as written wilted. From the White House came word that the Finance Com mittee could revive the bill as it pleased provided necessary revenue would still be forthcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: May Over Morgenthau | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Colbert, who cuddles up to the role of Cigarette, the Legion mascot who finally gallops across the desert to save the battalion from extermination by the Arabs and die dreamily in the arms of the man she loves. Colman plays the part of the Briton-with-a-past who com mits patrician misconduct with a willowy Lady Venetia (Rosalind Russell) in a ruined monastery in the desert while the sound track wallows in the Kashmiri Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

When Sunya Pratt was 14, her father gave her a number of books, told her to choose her-own religion. She chose Buddhism with "its philosophy of com passion, calmness, emancipation from ignorance and prejudice, its justice." Later she made Buddhists of her children and her husband, J. Wesley Pratt, a traveling salesman. ("It gives them a better understanding, free of all superstition.") But when the children grow up, Mrs. Pratt, now 38, intends to leave them and her home. She will have her head shaved, put on the. yellow robe of a mendicant nun, divest herself of all possessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Teiun | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...jeweler's eyepiece and tell what kind of atoms are dancing in a star trillions of miles away. Thus has astronomy advanced since Galileo first glimpsed the four big satellites of Jupiter and wondered what they were. The mod ern art of splitting up light into its com ponent colors, which disclose the chemical nature of the source, depends on a little thing called the diffraction grating. This is a plate of glass or metal with 15,000 to 30.000 parallel lines accurately ruled across every inch of it. Each line reflects the light at a slightly different angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Academicians | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...Tunnel. As a State Senator, Mr. Toll served in the negotiations for the Colorado River Compact which was to divide water power and water rights from Boulder Dam among seven Western states. He soon learned that states seldom agree, because they have no machinery for negotiation. The Colorado River Com pact was ten years in the making. The negotiators were unofficial representatives; their tentative agreements were often repudiated by their governors or their legislatures; when negotiations were begun again a new set of unofficial representatives would appear and all discussion had to start again from the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: New Machines | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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