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Word: crowdedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the closing of the libraries late in the afternoon and all day Sunday aroused a great deal of protest. Justified as an economy measure, these regulations have proved a nuisance, and, particularly in the case of the Fogg Museum library, have made studying hurried and difficult. In most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOGG OF THE EVENING | 10/31/1933 | See Source »

... In your pleasant review of my latest novel you make the statement that "In real life people never talk so wordily to the point." Are you sure of that? It is a modern and popular dictum, but I doubt it. I would like to make a dictaphone test. I admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1933 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

Between Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia (Russian sphere of influence) lies the vast Inner Mongolian plateau, a flat wilderness of grass ruled by hairy, fur-clad Mongol princes under the nominal overlordship of China's Nanking Government. Last month from every corner of Chahar and Suiyuan Provinces the princes of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Inner Mongolia for Inner Mongolians | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

In a crowded Federal courtroom in Oklahoma City one day last week, middle- aged Charles Frederick Urschel climbed down from the witness stand, strode over to a row of prisoners. He stopped in front of a strapping, humped-nosed fellow named Albert Bates. "That's one of the men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Nappers at the Bar | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

The Author, though casual readers might not guess it, is a serious League-of-Nations woman; her interest in Africa, based on her work for the League and a six-months' visit in 1926, is more than academic. After her return from Africa to England she made a point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Promotion | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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