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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard hosts were tolerant of their temporary weekend guests on the whole, considering the resulting increase in telephone and laundry bills. But one exception was the host who came in at five in the morning. "I found a guy sprawled on the floor and thought he was a friend of mine, so I balanced a glass of water on his shoulder and then kicked him. When he looked up I found I'd never seen him before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

...sustaining program, will spend about three times as much. Inspired by the 1936 Buenos Aires conference, Commissioner Studebaker and Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles hatched the idea a year ago. The programs, based on careful historical research by a staff headed by Dr. Samuel Guy Inman, adviser to the U. S. delegates at Buenos Aires, are checked by university professors, Pan American Union authorities and the Office of Education, but not by the State Department, which diplomatically avoids seeing the scripts. These have been in preparation for six months under Dr. William Dow Boutwell, director of the Federal radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brave New World | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

First New Deal documentary film was last year's The Plow that Broke the Plains. Like The Plow, The River was conceived and produced by Cinemacritic Pare Lorentz (McCall's, Vanity Fair), who had sold both ideas to Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell before Tugwell left the Brain Trust for the molasses business. Sponsor of the finished film is the Farm Security Administration, successor to the Resettlement Administration in the Department of Agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 0l' Man River | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...when Mona Carter (Joan Blondell) crashes her car through the Wickstead fence, discovers the perfect specimen testing a Newtonian theory by falling out of a tree. With very little urging, Gerald reacts like a perfectly normal and admirably coordinated human. He pursues Mona, impresses her by flattening a tough guy (Allen Jenkins), wins another bout at a truck drivers' picnic, goes to work as a mechanic, conducts a merry courtship while Grandma Wicks and the nation's police beat the bushes for him. Set-tos with such surrealities as mad Poet Killigrew Shawe (Hugh Herbert) and the truckmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...textbook publishers is not greedy politicians or cutthroat competition, but censorship. Religious, racial, political, economic groups keep an eagle eye on schoolbooks, are quick to howl at what they consider irregularities. After Gary's School Superintendent William Wirt in 1934 charged that New Deal Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers. There are fighting words, especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Textbooks | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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