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Word: glenns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twentieth Century-Fox). Mrs. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, champion backstroke swimmer,* is the current cinemate of a new and mightily thoracic Tarzan, blending with his eerie ee-ya-ee call the chewing-gum flavor of her pronounced Brooklyn accent. This new Tarzan is lean, 6-ft. 2-in., Olympic Champion Glenn Morris, summoned to the role to replace Johnny Weissmuller. Actor Morris, who heroically combines the facial qualities of Broadway's Burgess Meredith and Hollywood's Harpo Marx, has the miming ability of neither. What he has is the 1936 Olympic decathlon title. His costume: no leopard skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...following were elected to the board: William Abrahams '41, Glenn Frank, Jr.'40, and Irwin Ross'40. Robert Atwater'41 and George P. Mayhew'41 were elected associates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monthly Election | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

When middle-aged Jean Dee Jarnette was released last April, his first act was to take out duplicate seaman's papers under the names of Jack Morgan and Wes S. Glenn. As Jack Morgan he shortly turned up in New Orleans, married a pretty 17-year-old laborer's daughter named Lillian Casanova, took her back to California where the pair led a hand-to-mouth existence working as bellhop and chambermaid in hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Paradise Lost | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...plane like a speed boat, sprinting, curving, cutting corners through Chesapeake Bay until spectators said they had never seen an airplane so roughly handled. Then for 17 minutes he flew through the air about 100 ft. above the water. In continuous two-way radio conversation with Designer Glenn Luther Martin-who under a company agreement may not fly-Pilot Ebel reported M.O.T.'s performance. "Stable as a brick," grinned Designer Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Russian Sample | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...hours the big ship will undergo such tests. Then, after the payment of a reputed $1,000,000 cash, the ship will be handed over to its purchaser, Amtorg Trading Corp., buying agent in the U. S. for the Soviet Union. Despite all Glenn Martin's urging the Russians could not be persuaded to fly their sample home. Instead it will be flown to New York, dismantled and shipped by steamer to the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Russian Sample | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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