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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing the feeling of the Crimson on the elections questions, I thought that it would welcome a referendum, to settle the problem according to the wishes of the class itself. Now, I am tempted to wonder whether the Crimson's opposition to the referendum was not due to a fear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

> Einstein was ambling down Princeton's Nassau Street one day, waving amiably to tradesmen who gawped at him from doorways, when a Greek restaurateur timidly accosted him, asked him what lay outside the bounds of the known universe. The professor grinned, said: "Ja, do not worry; you don'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ja, Do Not Worry! | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

On a visit to Manhattan, blonde British Cinemactress Binnie Barnes babbled: "I don't think sex comes from the body. . . . I have been told I am a sexy person. ... I represent, I believe, the modern-day siren. A few years ago it was Mae West. It is no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Eve Curie, 34-year-old younger daughter and biographer of Madame Marie Sklodovska Curie, once declared: "I don't hate science, but it just terrifies me." Last week, slim and chic, she arrived in Manhattan with two objects: 1) the "exciting pleasure of buying some American clothes," and 2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Methodical and efficient, Author Marquand dictates first drafts, rewrites slowly. Once fond of reading adventure fiction, he now prefers what he calls "the bitter people"-Maugham and Thackeray. "I have," declares sardonic Author Marquand, "only three friends in the world and two of those don't like me."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deflowering of New England | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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