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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some as not being enough; it doesn't 'count.' It isn't 'important.' . . . The roots of love and the meaning of it in the present world need surely to be comprehended as much as the effect of a strike on its activists. (In fact, I am hoping to prove in a future play, The Silent Partner, that love and the urge to strike spring from a very similar origin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Knight Errant | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...hundred of today's leading musical experts, all of whom wrote special articles for it. With check lists of the works of every important composer, condensed plots of 213 operas, more than 50,000 biographies and definitions, Editor Thompson's Cyclopedia proved one of the most fact-stuffed volumes of its kind ever to appear in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Million-Word Charm | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Last month lion-jawed Pianist Moriz Rosenthal celebrated the soth anniversary of his U. S. debut by playing a special gold-lacquered piano in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall (TIME, Nov. 21). Forgotten at the time by most Manhattan concertgoers was the fact that Pianist Rosenthal's U. S. debut in 1888 was not a one-man show. Billed as assisting artist on that program was another U. S. debutant: a self-effacing, dark-eyed, 13-year-old Viennese violinist named Fritz Kreisler. In their excitement over Pianist Rosenthal's galloping fingers, the Manhattan critics nearly forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Unannounced Anniversary | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...ovum) are born dead or die soon after birth. Because Irina and Galina lived, acted like normal babies, they were a unique boon to researchers. Although they shared a common circulatory system, they had separate hearts whose rhythms did not coincide, separate stomachs, separate nervous systems. From the fact that they often slept at different times Soviet scientists evolved further proof of Pavlov's theory of sleep: that it is initiated not by poisons in the blood stream but by the nervous system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Everyone from the White House gardeners to the Secretary of War knew of the impending battle between the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants for the championship of the Eastern Division of the National (professional) Football League. In fact, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Postmaster General Jim Farley and RFC Chairman Jesse Jones were among the red-feathered Washington in vaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Powwow | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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