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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four-Part Setting - Ann Bridge -Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Peking Picnic, this sophisticated romance, with a Chinese background, stands out for its deft handling of romantic problems among the British embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Barr McCutcheon's Graustark. Year following came the sensational Story of Mary MacLane. Then Publisher Stone decided to cut corners, pay less attention to experimental writers, add cheap reprints, and he published a magazine called The House Beautiful. (The Chap-Book had folded in the Spanish-American War.) Four years later with "nothing of importance coming out," Publisher Stone sold his tottering business to a now-extinct Manhattan publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Man's Literature | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...however, Japanese art holds no interest for you, it is possible to enter the museum library and spend a little time with the four watercolors which are now being shown, one by Hopper and the remaining three by Sargent. The Hopper landscape serves only to heighten my belief in the excellence of the artist; the solid buildings, the clear pigment, and the clean spaciousness within which each part of the painting exists, are the work of a master painter. No element in Hopper's piece is created "in vacuo"; the houses, mountains, and the water are each related...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...first period and ran up three point lead by the third when the New York veterans put on a series of withering attacks to tie the score. Dave Eaton and Stacy Hulse retrieved the game for their mates when they sank the rubber twice in the last four minutes of play...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: Hockey Sextet Downs St. Nicholas Veterans 5 to 3 In Breathtaking Opener | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Never faltering before the New York blast, the Crimson rallied to net the winning shots in the last four minutes of play. Dave Eaton led off at 16:40 by taking a pass from Prenie Willetts and sinking the rubber from a difficult angle...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: Hockey Sextet Downs St. Nicholas Veterans 5 to 3 In Breathtaking Opener | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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