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Word: drawings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down upon our shores since the Britons decided whom among the fecund Windsors they wanted as their sovereign, comes an intriguing bit of flotsam designed specially for Harvard. Not Albion, however, but Germany is seen as the brother nation extending a small sprig of laurel in an attempt to draw fair Harvard out of her accustomed shell. Harvard has again been honored by being asked to send a delegate to the annual celebration of the university of Goettingen. Harvard has again, been honored by being asked to send a delegate to the annual celebration of the university of Goettingen. Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NEIN, DANKE" | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

...clocks are all crying "Cuckoo!" Next Mallory opens all the umbrellas in an umbrella shop, does similar whimsies in a dozen other Ranger-guarded stores. Nowhere does he steal anything, but always leaves a note signed "Night Key," reading: "What I create I can destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help of his daughter Joan (Jean Rogers), a Ranger guard named Jim Travers (Warren Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force, old Mallory manages to surmount beatings, blindness and bullets, finally defeat both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...though the new regulation may be strictly enforced, the crumbling of the parasitic institutions is by no means insured. For even if the schools are entirely dependent upon the undergraduates for obtaining the wares they deal in, they can still draw upon non-scholarship men. The University rightly reasons that the holders of scholarships are more obligated to it than others, and are therefore more subject to its legislation. If, however, the more studious men among the contributors are cut off, the emporiums must inevitably produce less abundantly. But it is doubtful that they will enter a mortal decline just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARASITICIDE | 4/23/1937 | See Source »

...Mall. Promptly every session it was tabled, until the 73rd Congress found itself with buckets of New Deal money to spend. Quickly Representative Boylan's Jefferson Memorial bill was passed, an expenditure of $3,000,000 authorized (but not appropriated) and a commission set up to draw plans, with Congressman Boylan as chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Basin Battle | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...phonograph records." So said Managing Director Irving Mills of Master Records, Inc. (TIME, March 22) last week as he totted up the newest U. S. record company's first week's business. As a house policy, accent on what is known in show business as the "freak draw" is novel in the recording industry. As applied to Mills's Master (75?) and Variety (35?) disks, however, it had apparently worked.* Anticipating initial sales of 40,000 records, the company was swamped with orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Freak Draw | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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