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Word: duals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dateline: Europe he adds a split to the already dual personality of Rosten and Ross, in a glib, neatly joined short novel about a foreign correspondent. Laid in Belgovenia, it covers the adventures of Peter Strake and girls in an abortive Putsch, drips conversational tinsel like a Christmas tree, is neither standard Ross nor Rosten. As one character says: "It's like a cross between Graustark and the Arabian Nights, written by E. Phillips Oppenheim." Authors McCutcheon, Scheherazade, Oppenheim might object, but to most readers Dateline: Europe will seem like a versatile slip which can do Author Rosten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tinsel | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

With the surprising Quad meet victory behind them, this year's Varsity is an exceptionally well-balanced aggregation and should be a powerful dual meet team. Whether there are enough standouts to enable Harvard to score heavily in the Heptagonal and I.C.4A meets which follow the Yale meet is more doubtful...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Adverse Weather Hampers Runners; Yale Meet Nears | 4/13/1939 | See Source »

Still very much in the experimental stage, the program, when extended to Harvard, will follow closely the present one at M.I.T., where 20 students are already taking their dual flying instruction at the East Boston and Norwood Airports. M.I.T. is providing the ground school instruction while the C.A.A. has hired three members of the E. W. Wiggins school for the aviation instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE MAY HELP IN C.A.A. PILOT TRAINING | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

Last week Carl Magee was in Oklahoma City again, having resigned from the three papers and left the Valley for good. He explained that he was looking over his interests in Dual Parking Meter Co., would soon leave for New Mexico to write a book on Teapot Dome. At reports that he would revive the Oklahoma News (which Scripps-Howard let die last month), ex-Firebrand Carl Magee only shook his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fireless Firebrand | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Deal paradox. The attack: FTC told the Monopoly Committee that the basing-point price system makes the steel industry "a focal centre of monopolistic infection which, if not eradicated, miy well cause the death of free capitalistic industry in the U. S." The paradox: The Administration's dual attitude toward Business-olive branch in one hand, big stick in the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Old Quarrel | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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