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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green winter, many deaths," sages quoted in Minnesota. No snow to speak of had fallen, and Minnesotans still watered their lawns after one of the driest Novembers in memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Driest Fall | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Lancaster, Pa. is a thriving city with 60,000 inhabitants, six movie houses, but no theatre. No road company has played there since 1930. But, thanks to the enterprising Green Room Club of Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, the town is not left playless. Under the direction of scholarly, energetic Darrell Larsen, who has coached plays at F. & M. since 1927, undergraduates produce four shows a season, each running a week. From a male student body of 900,300 try out annually for dramatics-many more than go out for football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Braver than Broadway | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Lancaster girls play the feminine roles in Green Room shows, and costumes are rented; otherwise everything connected with the productions - acting, staging, lighting, scene-designing-is done bythe club itself. About half its audiences are drawn from the campus, the other half from the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Braver than Broadway | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Green Room's college cast offered a smooth, intelligent performance. If they often Jacked force, and could almost never suggest the dark corners of the Renaissance soul, they were seldom stagy, seldom obscure, spoke blank verse with distinction. Broadway might have done better, but Broadway refuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Braver than Broadway | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...trie cannery in midsummer went Farmer Barney Foster with a load of green peas, hand-picked and hulled. That year, 1932, the cannery shipped 60 sample cases of canned peas to U. S. grocers. This year seven regional canneries (two in Walla Walla) turned out 2,650,000 cases of canned green peas (one-sixth of U. S. canned pea production) worth some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Father of Peas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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