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Word: crowdedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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One day last week Unionist Frankensteen sat in a crowded Senate committee room in Washington, listening to testimony before the La Follette subcommittee investigating violations of civil liberties and labor rights. Suddenly he heard something that jerked him up with a funny feeling in his stomach's pit. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: U. S. Terror | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Questioned as to Mrs. Macfadden's version of the case, they said that the letter quoted was a crude forgery which a blackmailer had prepared for the embarrassment of Mrs. Macfadden. They also said that two letters were actually written by Mrs. Macfadden to Governor Hoffman's secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oursler v. Macfadden | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

"Hundreds of people, all crowding and shoving their pencils at me. I want to go home." The diminutive Sonje Henie crinkled up her blue eyes in mock exasperation while she sat in her crowded dressing room last night and told modestly of her skating career.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sonja Henie "Wants to Go Home," She Says, Declining to Skate on the Charles | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

Stockbroker Starr and Frank G. Marcellus, who claims he is a cousin of the late Mrs. Garrett, quietly became administrators of the residuary estate, but four years passed before a public accounting was made at the instance of persons who became aware of the fortune. Two years ago, when the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Snuff Dreams | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Most of the novels about the World War, from Andreas Latzko's Men in Battle (1930) to Humphrey Cobb's Paths of Glory (1935), have been in terms of frontline fighting. To such outstanding exceptions as John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers and Arnold Zweig's Case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Front | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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