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Word: fairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to express our keen appreciation of the very fair and informative article in your July 13 issue on the subject of consumers cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...have permitted a straightforward adaptation of Herbert Gorman's mildly lubricious novel. Consequently the full quota of Harlow appeal which the picture contains had to be injected gradually rather than in short strong doses. Aside from the stuffy epic manner which ill befits its subject, it is a fair sample of its school-frivolous, kinetic and absurd, but not without real moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...fair summary of the situation seems to be this: Neither political group has any real interest in the Civil Service. The spoils system has been more widespread under this administration than previously because the establishment is larger. Only if they could be promised a half-and-half division of the jobs would the managing politicians be willing to classify all except the top layer of Federal job holders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Civil Service | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...opposite Cinemactress Andrea Leeds in Producer Sam Goldwyn's forthcoming picture Come and Get It. For a typical sequence he chose one in which the actor kissed Cinemactress Leeds eight times. In order to give each of three prospects-John Payne, Bob Lowrey and Tennist Frank Shields-a fair chance, he had each do the sequence 20 or more times. The tests took more than three hours each. At the end of the day a script clerk announced that Cinemactress Leeds had been kissed 467 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Record | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...hospital fair, John Jacob Astor III was voted the handsomest man in Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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