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Word: essayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentimental monography Woodstock, An Essay (1923) Poet Richard Le Gallienne describes Brown as a second Balboa, misquotes Keats: "[Brown] stood looking down on Woodstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mavericks | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...massive desk at his home, he has written the testament of the psychoanalysts. This week in recognition of his lifelong work, he will receive the Goethe prize given by the German City of Frankfurt. The award is especially appropriate for Dr. Freud. Some 50 years ago, Goethe's essay Die Natur first decided him to abandon the writing of poetry which had been his occupation, and study natural processes. After a course in general medicine, he specialized in neurology. One day, Dr. Josef Breuer, Viennese physician, told him about a girl cured of hysteria by recollecting under hypnosis certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Freud Honored | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Because Statesman & Scientist Benjamin Franklin won his fame in Phila- delphia, few but historians are prone to associate him with Boston. He was Boston-born Jan. 6, 1706, son of Josiah Franklin, a tallow chandler. Not until 1723, after he had written many an essay for his brother James's New England Courant, "first sensational newspaper in America," did Benjamin Franklin migrate to Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boston's Franklin | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Anti-Prohibitionists may think it significant when publishers venture books making jokes about Prohibition. Such signs of the times are Casanova Jones, narrative satirical poem, and The Future of Drinking, satirical essay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prohibition in Prosody & Prose | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...able Governor Oliver Max Gardner calls a "Live-at-Home" campaign. The economic theory behind this program is that the home-living husbandman raises his own food and feed, patronizes local production plants, reduces his dependence upon extrastate sources of supply. A prime feature of the campaign was an essay contest among 800,000 North Carolina school children. Last week Governor Gardner closed the competition by awarding prizes in the House of Representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Live-at-Home | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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