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Word: disconnectedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each month during the growing season the Secretary of Agriculture receives in specially marked and colored envelopes figures on crop conditions and prospects from 120,000 crop reporters throughout the land. This great bundle of reports, from which official U. S. crop estimates will later be distilled, the Secretary stows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Crops This Month | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

In Germany, meanwhile, the Transportation Ministry chose to smile upon the achievement "which will enhance German prestige throughout the world." It was learned that von Gronau actually had cabled from Iceland for permission to fly on westward. This request was immediately followed by a message saying he had taken off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Arrived: D-1422 | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

Anybody's War (Paramount). This rambling comedy involving two colored men ("Moran & Mack") and a Sealyham terrier in the U. S. Army is quietly and deftly directed by Richard Wallace. Other pictures like this have often degenerated into a series of disconnected gags, but Wallace keeps the action moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 21, 1930 | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Mrs. Norris writes like an incurable romantic for almost the same reason Louisa May Alcott did. Miss Alcott had brothers and sisters to support. Mrs. Norris feels she must support the hearts of the thousands of people who began to write her letters when she began writing books. She cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romance, Inc. | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Disjointed and disconnected, the plot results in a welter of many unequal scenes. The sentencing of the miner, Hagon Derk, to death for a murder which he has not committed, has power and introduces the play well; but the following scenes, lack corresponding conviction--the "wild party" is only amusing...

Author: By Julius Vexler, | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/18/1930 | See Source »

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