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Word: fosterers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never sets: the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. In Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, the U. S., they are many a tot's first taste of theatre, many an oldster's last object of devotion. They draw dramaphobes out of retirement, lure suburbanites to the city. They foster cultists as rabid as Wagnerians-cultists who, unlike Wagnerians, squeal, snort, gurgle, hum and nudge their neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: G&S | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...self-preservation. Admitting that nothing but harm can come out of the terror now raging in Palestine, he insists that physical violence by the Arab is the "inevitable corollary of the moral violence" done the Arab, that Arab terrorism in Palestine does not need German or Italian propaganda to foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Arab Case | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...Occidental audiences, the heroine of Sable Cicada (Violet Koo) represents a combination of Pocahontas, Martha Washington, Molly Pitcher and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Foster daughter of an elderly statesman, she patriotically undertakes to relieve his political difficulties by becoming simultaneously concubine to the fat old Prime Minister and fiancee to the Prime Minister's handsome young generalissimo, thus causing internal combustion that brings in a new ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...imposed in recent years was three months in prison.* If a grand jury refuses to indict Louis Greenfield, it will add one more brick to the foundation of unwritten law condoning mercy killings. It will also strengthen the case of euthanasia advocates, headed by Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Euthanasiasts decry mercy killings by overwrought relatives, plump for a tightly written law which will set up impartial committees of physicians to examine hopeless invalids, recommend scientific extinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Better Off Dead | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Foster," he said, "I'm your man. I'm all shot. . . ." May dashed out, hailed the cops, grabbed a short-wave microphone and ran back in to interview his captive before police could haul him away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Nemesis by Air | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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