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Word: expositioneers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Big-city vice investigations commonly rocket up in a splatter of front-page headlines, sputter out on back pages with a few inconsequential arrests and vague generalities which leave decent citizens no better informed about local conditions than they were before. Last week in Manhattan a racket investigation launched by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Bawdy Business | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Containing no dialog, with only 700 words of exposition by an unseen commentator, The Plow That Broke the Plains begins with lush, billowy grass, ends with the hulk of a dead tree surrounded by sun-baked desert. What happens between is shown in the arrival of the cattle on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Documented Dust | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Nucleus of the company was formed in 1853 by the two brothers Berkey, Julius and William, one of whom had taken an afternoon off from logging in the Grand River to hew himself a table. Twenty years later the company was incorporated with $500,000 capital, and the great period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Grand Rapids Heroism | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

As the latest stunt in a lively series which has kept Texas in the nation's eye for weeks, the able publicity staff of the Texas Centennial Exposition not only sent the 21-year-old Texas Quadruplets, Mary, Mona, Leota & Roberta Keys, to visit the Dionne Quintuplets, but persuaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

On Maundy Thursday Pius XI was to join his Court & Cardinals in a two-hour service in the Sistine and Pauline chapels, culminating when a consecrated Host, in a priceless ancient chalice of rock crystal studded with precious stones and etched with 13 scenes of the Passion of Our Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rome's Easter | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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