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Word: filles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What are the desired ends which could not be harmonized with the noble desire "to play this game with the highest type of sportsmanship" -- simply to have winning teams, to compete at all costs, to fill the stadia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAD BUT NOT FORGOTTEN | 1/12/1937 | See Source »

Career. In London last week, authoritative sources continued their post-Abdication exploration and disclosure of the Story of the Year. It became possible to fill in the sort of life led by King Edward and Mrs. Simpson accurately. Her life up to Mrs. Simpson's meeting with Edward VIII was inconsequential to a degree, has never been rehearsed in TIME. She was born in one of those typical Southern families who all more or less descend from William the Conqueror, but Wallis Varfield was not going to spend her life talking about her family. She resolved early to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Woman of the Year | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...Society of Particular Adventurers for Traffique with Virginia" which was formed to exploit the colonists. Also novel in Professor Andrews' first volume was his analysis of the human material of the colonies, those "lascivious sonnes, masters of bad servants, and wives of ill husbands" whose doings fill the criminal records and who were occasionally punished by being nailed to the pillory by the ears. Spies moved freely among them, since Spain maintained a well-knit espionage apparatus to keep informed on the progress of the feeble British outposts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Origins | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...obstacle to which radiomen and educators alike devoted much earnest thought last week was the inability of educators to fill free time with interesting programs. President David Sarnoff of Radio Corp. of America bluntly declared: "Radio programs can be created to inform the mind and elevate the spirit, but when one seeks to impose upon them the requirement that they also furnish mental training and discipline, one narrows their appeal and risks the dispersion of the invisible audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Radio Conference | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...February when the Fashion Originators' Guild of America, patrolling the dress trade against style piracy, cracked down on R. H. White department store, owned by Boston's famed Wm. Filene's Sons Co., for harboring stolen styles (TIME, March 23). Members of the Guild refused to fill orders from White's or Filene's. Promptly Filene's charged the Guild with conspiracy in restraint of trade, took the matter to court with the backing of other "red-carded" stores and the potent National Retail Dry Goods Association. Confirmed last week were the findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dress Peace | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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