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Word: gracing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radcliffe has given up bowling as an official sport this year but this unofficial foursome headed by Radcliffe's bowling champion, Miss Grace Bennett, are already set to play any representative quartet from Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Bowlers Say They Have the Stuff to Down Any Harvard Pin Men---Miss Grace Bennett Bowls Mean 160 | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...Grace Pailthorpe is tall. Mr. Reuben Mednikoff is small. Dr. Pailthorpe is the daughter of a stockbroker. Mr. Mednikoff is the son of a peasant. She is 48, he is 32; she a doctor, he a commercial artist. She has spent some time bushwhacking in New Zealand; he has spent much of his brushwielding in London. Both have bright eyes, great energy, and perfectly terrific subconscious minds. Fate threw them together at a party five years ago, and they have been working together ever since on the Cornwall coast. Last week the fruit of those years-65 of the goofiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Surrealistic Science? | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...connoisseurs, the big current news is the latest U. S. visit of England's famed D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. The late Richard D'Oyly Carte produced most of Gilbert & Sullivan originally. His son Rupert has preserved intact, to the last gesture and grace note, the traditions of his father's productions. On three previous American tours, Rupert D'Oyly Carte gave fastidious Gilbert & Sullivan fans a glimpse of Heaven. On his fourth visit he does not let them down...

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

...Grace Moore (Sat. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Red) in her first trills this season with the Metropolitan Opera Company. The opera : Charpentier's Louise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...prompted Congress with a reminder that the U. S. had a full year to prepare after it declared war in 1917, and that "there is new range and speed to offense" nowadays. In other words, it is necessary to prepare in advance since there will be no period of grace next time, when war may be carried to the U. S. Said he: "Calling attention to these facts does not remotely intimate that the Congress or the President have any thought of taking part in another war on European soil. . . . Every American knows that we have no thought of aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Arms & the Congress | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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