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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This exacting art Sonja Henie began to study when she was eight. For Christmas that year Father Wilhelm, a Scandinavian copy of W. C. Fields, gave her her first, cheap pair of skates. Trying them out at the Frogner Stadium, little Sonja promptly sat down. Getting up, she practiced her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Then & there Sonja Henie, who has a competitive spirit only in the sense that she cannot brook a serious rival, decided that she would be beaten no more. She withdrew from competition, began practicing seven hours a day. Because Norway then had no indoor rinks and the good ice lasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Mr. Brink (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) exercises his literally fatal charm on old Gramps' son and wife, but the old man (Lionel Barrymore) proves a tougher customer. Gramps puts Mr. Brink up a tree until he can figure out a way to keep his chubby-legged little grandson, Pud, out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

No sooner had the quotation gone over the ticker than an order came selling him ten shares at 30. He quoted again two points down and his bid was snatched at 28. He continued dropping his price, but like a hungry school of fish snatching at fat grubs, sellers snatched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Improper Indignity | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Next, United announced that it would write down its $581,285,157 paper assets to $144,528,214. In this $436,756,943 write-off-one of two stupendous deflations of book values in the history of the inflating utility industry*-SEC concurred. Before the year was out United made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT TRUSTS: Change of Life | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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