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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a new author took over the old plot, streamlined it, added exciting new characters, put a punch in every scene. Author of this revised version was a bulky, mustached Yale professor, a Don but no Quixote, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. Since the construction industry protractedly has proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Anti-Building Boom | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

March Into: "You mean you don't know what it is? Then you don't say what you mean."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grabberwoch Came G | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Owner and publisher of La Prensa is Don Ezequiel P. Paz, son of the late Dr. José C. Paz, who founded the paper in 1869. (Argentina's oldest newspaper is the English-language Buenos Aires Standard, founded 1861.) Now past 65, childless Don Ezequiel leaves the active management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Latins Honored | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

It is a settled policy of La Prensa never to comment on personalities: its editors hold that nothing matters except principles. These are the special concern of Sunday Editor Gollan. La Prensa's editorials, skipped by most readers, supposedly wield great power with the Government. When a significant editorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Latins Honored | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

On the football field "Passin' Paul" is as nonchalant as a co-ed over a cocktail. When he darts to the right, then spins around and throws a touchdown pass to the left, one of his favorite plays, he usually explains to his opponent: "Just a little thing we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Merry Christman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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