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Word: greenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There on the promenade, with the St. Lawrence spread out below and the green hills beyond, 5,000 Canadians burst into French and English cheers as the Presidential party appeared. From the heights of the Citadel boomed a 21-gun salute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ces Aimables Paroles | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

Excerpts from the chorus: The Voice of Rhode Island (Theodore F. Green): "Landon was a question mark when he began to speak. He was an even larger question mark when he finished speaking. ... I am disappointed." The Voice of Pennsylvania (George H. Earle): "We were not impressed by any talk of fumbling with recovery. . . . Governor Landon may be familiar with [the steel industry] since his uncle, William T. Mossman, is the chief lobbyist in Harrisburg for the Pennsylvania steel masters. The Pennsylvania steel industry is booming today as it has never boomed since the World War (see p. 49). Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Six Against Landon | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...steady green light and green paper or walls should be in the bedrooms of young male children as this color raises the male sex urge to a higher level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Miracle Man | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...private life Lionel Stander is an earnest, reasonably cultured young man whose outstanding physical peculiarity is not his accent but his eyes-one brown, one green. He took up acting after an employer fired him for losing a package of bonds worth $147,000, worked his way up in bit parts on Broadway, directed a stock summer theatre, now has a long contract with Columbia. Last year he was paid $3,100 for acting in a picture in which he said two words ("Two Hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 27, 1936 | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...Whiskey sales, as well as production, have always slumped in the hot months, gin sales traditionally rising. To improve whiskey's standing as a summer drink, Calvert Distilling Co. last winter dispatched an expedition to the Amazon ("Green Hell of Guiana" for advertising purposes), equipped with "dermatherms" and plenty of Calvert whiskey. After sitting around in the jungle drinking Calvert for six weeks the expedition returned with figures showing that skin temperatures were ½° to 1° lower after "ingestion" of the whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Whiskey Lull | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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