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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office was never connected with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The "Goldwyn" in M-G-M is his original Goldwyn Pictures Corp. which merged with Metro and Mayer in 1924, two years after Sam Goldwyn himself had left it. Alva Johnston's account does not directly contradict this fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...universally accepted insignia of respectability and gentlemanliness. And as to his "walking down Broadway" in it, that had no more connotation of an American Pope than his walking down Piccadilly, the Rue de la Paix or Unter den Linden would have connoted an English, French or German Pope. In fact, I never heard of any one taking the Doctor's phrase for an intimation that he desired to see an American Pope until I read it in Frank McGlynn's letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Professor Graton's instrument magnifies distinctly 6000 diameters, four times more than the theoretical limit of clear definition. In fact, it goes beyond this more dimly and sees down to 100 atom diameters, about as close to the limits of infinite smallness as the seeing limits of the 200 in. telescope will be to the outer edges of creation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Graton Discusses His Giant, Newly Perfected One Ton Microscope | 12/4/1937 | See Source »

...stressed the fact that photography does not attempt to imitate the work of the painter. Except in one instance, the field of photography confines itself to realistic, rather than interpretative portrayal. That instance is in the case of modernistic photos from unusual angles, which resembles the current Cubist and Surrealist tendencies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Says Candid Camera Craze Has Made The American Public Picture-Conscious | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

...hundred per cent of these employees. By a recently enacted state law, not yet tested, Harvard might be compelled to recognize the union as the only bargaining agent of union members working in the University, which include supposedly nine-tenths of the total number employed. From the fact that officials are still negotiating with the local organizer, it can be rightly surmised that they desire a compromise in short order. What the terms of that compromise will be is a matter of speculation. As far as the union is concerned, it would probably accept wage scales only slightly higher than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNION IN HARVARD | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

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