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Word: franked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual's chances for a happy marriage is the happiness of his parents. Other favorable auguries: having had a happy childhood, having had firm but not harsh early home discipline, having had little conflict with his parents and strong attachment to them, having had parents who were frank about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Marriage & Happiness | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...approachable than usual, after her summer in Europe with Leopold Stokowski, she chatted brightly with reporters, smiled, posed for pictures. Asked whether she was married, she said she would not marry until she found the "right man." Into Jack & Charlie's ("21"), famed Manhattan restaurant, wandered Cinema Director Frank Capra, dressed in conventional Hollywood garb, including a polo shirt open at the throat. The headwaiter, horrified, rushed up to him, murmured apologetically: "Sorry, but you can't sit here like that. You'll have to wear a necktie. I'll have the waiter bring some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...others were unlisted presumably because they received less than $15,000 yearly. Of the remaining 16, ten got $25,000 or more, and four made more than $50,000. The top four were Photography Expert Charles E. K. Mees of Eastman Kodak Co. ($54,000); Physicist-Engineer Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories ($55,000); Chemist Charles M. A. Stine of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. ($65,000); Chemist George Henry Clowes of Eli Lilly & Co. (drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pecuniary Rewards | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...sunny afternoon last May, 61-year-old Frank Hoffman, who was working on a farm outside Hagerstown, Md., began to disinfect the barn with a high-pressure spraying hose. Suddenly the machine jammed, backfired, showered Hoffman with carbolic acid and lime. He whipped out his bandanna handkerchief, rubbed his eyes, and despite the searing pain continued working. In a few days Farmer Hoffman was stone blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eye-For-Eye | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Died. Le Roy Newton Mills, 55, Mount Vernon, N. Y. lawyer who was an authority on football kicking, tutor of Notre Dame's Frank Carideo, Columbia's Cliff Montgomery, Yale's Dave Colwell; of a heart attack suffered on University Field, Princeton, N. J. Less than a month before, William B. Lynch, Princeton fullback, expert dropkicker, Mills's pupil, dropped dead of a heart attack on the same field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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