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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Some of our country towns have lately come to have a Continental look," wrote the editor of the British Lancet last week, "for every morning every window is filled with bedding hung out to air in the sunshine. The scene is cheerful, but the householders are depressed; for the habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dry Nights | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

The Japanese did not stress a few facts : > 1939's summer-autumn cocoon crop is the biggest in six years, estimated at 339,800,000 Ibs.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Paying with Silk | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

I'll Take the High Road is capable of interesting a far more general, more sedentary audience than those whose interest in flying is already active. For Author Langewiesche has an uncommon talent for conveying, not merely describing, physical sensations. He is, moreover, both as airman and writer, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Popular Flying | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

In fact, Taft was too scrupulous for his own good. In his private letters he said the things he should have said in public. He was almost smug about refusing to use his patronage powers to bring Congressmen into line. He outmaneuvered the silken Senator Nelson Aldrich on the tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Man | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

As a direct result of the decreased activity of the tutoring schools, the Boylston, Reading Room has been overcrowded during the past few weeks, Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, Director of the Library, revealed yesterday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOYLSTON JAMMED AS TUTORING SLACKS UP | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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