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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Oakland, thoroughly alarmed, heard from Stead. "Something must be wrong with the Oakland range," he said. With only 60 gallons of gas left, he reported: "Don't know exactly where I am."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Back in Cannes, Dancer Daniels blurbed: "Herr Hitler spoke to me in German, and I don't know what the word for it is but a translator said he said I had marvelous movements of the body and legs, and I guess that meant flexes. He said, 'You...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fuhrer and Flexes | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

The Colorado River's Boulder Dam has six giant generators which turn out 82.500 kilowatts each. Among hydroelectric turbine machines, these hold a record for power. But Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. pointed out last week that "records don't last long among water wheels." The company has started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coulee's Watts | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

At week's end Benny Goodman could claim technical victory. Box-office receipts were approximately equal ($24,000), but the Paramount, where Artie Shaw was playing, had a 99? top to the Shubert's 75?. Addicts of Shaw's exciting recordings of Begin the Beguine and Backbay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jitterbugs in Jersey | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Tiana Lemnitz. Erna Berger, Helge Roswaenge, Gerhard Hüsch and other artists; Victor: 2 volumes, 3-7 sides). The 18th-Century Masonic symbolism ol Mozart's great, quaint, rollicking fantasy-opera The Magic Flute is pretty vague to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: March Records | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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