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Word: groupe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiment, a group of sixteen Freshmen showed marked improvement in reading skill and some advance in scholastic standing, after eight weeks of special training last fall. They increased their reading speed by 50 percent, gained in reading accuracy, and altered for the better their habits of eye movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Receive New Reading Instruction to Raise Eye Speed | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

This week people who found the Whitney Museum's selection of 20th-century painting already turning tamely classic could rush off to the Associated American Artists' businesslike galleries, where to most of the 58 members of An American Group, Inc. classic was a fighting word. Their exhibition of paintings, sculpture and wood carvings was as up-to-the-minute as an air raid, often as violent and savage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Open Season | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

World War I was hardly three weeks old when one William Ewert Berry, publisher of a modest group of British journals, came out with a weekly picture magazine: War Illustrated. Before the War ended and the Illustrated died, it had a circulation of 750,000 (record for its day) made Berry rich and helped earn him a knighthood. Editor was husky 43-year-old John Hammerton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War Weeklies | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Among other U. S. members of the group: John R. Mott, Foreign Relations Expert John Foster Dulles, Professor Georgia E. Harkness of Mount Holyoke College, Professor Charles G. Fenwick of Bryn Mawr (Roman Catholic internationalist, present as a technical adviser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Program | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...exploring Columbian sites in the Azores, the expedition plans to backtrack Columbus to Portugal and Spain, and thence back across the Atlantic again to Central America, ending about February 1, 1940. Professor Morison's group is resailing the routes of Columbus in order to make a definite estimate of the explorer as a seaman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORISON GROUP IN AZORES | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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