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Word: dis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris Lucienne Boyer has had several new songs to keep her night club customers buying champagne far into the morning. The best ones are "Ne dis pas toujours," "Quand tu seras dans mes bras" and "Ballade" which Yvette Guilbert could have sung with no more finesse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tourists | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...happens they talk about their careers; and the scientist, a bit embarrassed at talking so much, tells of his search for Kamongo, the lung fish, who, when the dry season domes along, buries himself in the harioning mud and lives by merely breathing through an air hole, and who dis when you put him in water for any length of time...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: BOOKENDS | 9/23/1932 | See Source »

...name has come from him. He deserves reelection for what he has done and for what he has prevented. We know he is safe and sound. ... It is a time when the great body of our people of common sense should not be stampeded. . . . The record of two generations dis closes that the safety of the country lies in the success of the principles of the Republican party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Dogged Doubt Removed | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...later was killed by.someone else. But Pat never shot anybody. And he never had dealings with any John McGinnis. An Oklahoma City newspaperman thought the story had something to do with an editor named John McGuire, now deceased. He seemed to recall that Editor McGuire had published something dis pleasing to Mr. Hurley, and Mr. Hurley had told him: "I once shot a man, McGuire. for saying less than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Colored Bodies | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...having children with such discriminating taste. More power to them. "March of Time," in the opinion of many, many people, is the finest program on the air, and while we regretted that the sponsors decided to discontinue the broadcast, we had no intention of penalizing the publishers by dis continuing our subscription, because it would prove a boomerang. The punishment would be ours. I too read many newspapers and magazines, but I have yet to find a magazine that gives the news of the world in such concise form. Broadcasting companies are not philanthropists, and the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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