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Word: deeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long overdue, widely advertised, win-the-war offensive of Generalissimo Francisco Franco began at dawn one clear, cold day last week in western Catalonia. Hardest fighting took place in the mountainous section near Tremp, where snow was so deep that communications bogged and the temperature was so low that water froze in the cooling jackets of machine guns. A second, lighter attack, believed to be merely a diversion, took place in the flatter country near the Segre River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Win the War | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...people write to the Voice of Experience each day, ask for help and advice. They write to the station on which they hear him or to a Manhattan Post Office box address. The location of his home and his office he keeps secret. His passion for anonymity goes so deep that he claims that even members of his family heard the Voice on the air for years before they knew his identity. His business acquaintances call him the Voice. That is the way he signs most of the letters he writes, and his briefcase is initialed in gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: V. O. E. | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...concertgoers like musical cold meat. By the time they reach the concert hall most spirituals have been written down on paper, dressed up like hymn tunes, adorned with fancy piano accompaniments, "interpreted" according to the best rules of high-brow music. But in the whitewashed rural churches of the deep South, their spiritual home, spirituals are as hot as hot jazz, and often sound like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spirituals to Swing | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...humor, imaginativeness, suspense and its more elusive quality of "theatre." Profound, or even provocative, it never was; the play is effective just because it treats the idea of death simply, concretely, familiarly. The appeal of Playwright Sutton Vane's imagination is not its incandescence or daring, but its deep kinship with Everyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...When they used the cream faithfully they were able to practice normal sexual relations. A third patient, a boy of 18 whose voice had not yet changed, rubbed the ointment into the skin over his Adam's apple twice daily for a month until "his voice became very deep and remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormone Massage | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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