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Word: davision (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Mr. Eden, whose good looks and idealistic pro-League reputation are reputedly worth some 1,500,000 votes to the Government at election time, remains Foreign Secretary, sound Sir Robert was thus given the widest conceivable authority and mobility in conducting British foreign policy. Technically he will still be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Vansittart & Honors | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

The United States Lawn Tennis Association, ruling body of U. S. amateur tennis, keeps a sharp eye on all promising junior players to detect, if possible, embryonic Davis Cuppers. For, blushing unseen among the juniors might be another Donald Budge, Robert Riggs, Frank Parker or Joseph Hunt-all of whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Future Cuppers | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

At that time Samuel Davis Wilson was an investigator for a zealous religious group engaged in prosecuting concessionaires who stayed open Sundays at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Exposition. Getting into politics in the city comptroller's office, Sam Wilson soon rocketed to fame by attacking "the utility-banking-political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fun in Philadelphia | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

"It's Love I'm After" has the virtue of being acted well, but also the fault of occasional banal dialogue. It is too much to expect, of course, that the scenario writers can make each line original as well as humorous; but just the same, you are conscious of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXAM TROUBLES | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

Those who think of authors as being rent-free tenants of an ivory tower might be surprised at the list of well-known U. S. writers who have been glad to get on the WPA payroll: Poet Conrad Aiken, for example, who wrote the memorable description of Deerfield, Mass, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mirror to America | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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