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Word: far (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Far be it from TIME to ridicule any godly man. TIME reports the news, goofy or not, to the best of its ability. If anybody is kidding Michigan, it is not TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Anderson, who, far from being ousted, was last week re-elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, TIME'S apologies; to TIME'S National Affairs department, a rap on the knuckles. The resolution to oust him was tabled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Valentiner went too far with intimate arrangement only once, crowding five El Grecos into a cubicle. Chief triumphs of the show were in his own favorite field of Flemish and Dutch painting. In the eyes of connoisseurs, the Ince Hall Madonna (see cut) by Jan van Eyck was worth an exhibition all by itself. This tiny (8¾ inches by 6 inches) painting on wood came all the way from the National Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, where it is valued at $250,000. Until 1922 it lurked, under a heavy scum of varnish, in the murk of Ince Hall, near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Little Louvre | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...far no cases of lipstick poisoning have been pinned on Guerlain, Inc. Government officials let the Frenchmen off lightly, made them promise to treat U. S. lips more tenderly in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lip Poison | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Best hammock reading so far this season is The Brandons, a deft tale of pixillated English gentry. Author Thirkell (August Folly, Pomfret Towers) is the at tractive, 49-year-old granddaughter of pre-Raphaelite Painter Burne-Jones, a cousin of ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and of Rudyard Kipling, who tried out many of his Just So Stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hammock-Perfect | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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