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Word: experts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less concerned about cigarets-more than 100 billion of which were sold in the first ten months of 1929, an increase of 13% over 1928-than he was about chewing and smoking tobacco. There has been a 1% decline in plugs. Vice-Chairman Stone's august and expert explanation was this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Tobacco Tax | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...musical comedy on the stage and one on the screen is that the size of everything is doubled and its effectiveness cut in half. This is a photograph, in pink technicolor shades, of a show without much wit or any good new songs. It is partly redeemed by the expert dancing of Marilyn Miller. Best dance: "A Wild, Wild Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mysterious Island | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

Last week there joined the ranks of U. S. music patrons President Martin L. Davey of Davey Tree Expert Co. of Kent, Ohio, onetime (1918-21, 1923-29) Congressman, candidate last year for the governorship of Ohio (TIME, March 5, 1928). Claiming no expert musical knowledge but believing that his political experience qualified him as judge, Politician Davey will wager 26 nation-wide radio programs, beginning Jan. 5, that people in the U. S. prefer oldtime melodies to either jazz or classical music. He explained: "My first purpose in putting on this program is to commemorate the golden anniversary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Antheil-Erskine Opera? | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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