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Word: haire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better world. One cause of this is undoubtedly the house itself, with its flowing lines and receptiveness to the landscape. Another is undoubtedly the house's builder. Gracious, mischievous and immaculate at 68, Frank Lloyd Wright has little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there can be little doubt that Frank Lloyd Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Usonian Architect | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...also says he would rather put on Author Will Durant than Philosopher John Dewey. He admits his debates supply listeners with little information but conceives his role as that of stimulator. Mr. Denny wants his 3,000,000 auditors to be open-minded above all. An indefatigable user of hair tonics, bald Mr. Denny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Town Meetings | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...time of his disappearance he was wearing a brown hat, tan camel's hair topcoat, brown suit, and tan shoes, a check of his clothing indicates. It is believed that he had not more than ten dollars on his person. College officials say that his father, Richard Gould, shoe manufacturer of Brooklyn, New York, is seriously ill at home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Vanishes in New Disappearance Case; Witness Claims He Saw Burgess Drown in Charles | 1/13/1938 | See Source »

...been requested that any information as to Wilbur Gould's where-abouts be given to the police, college authorities, or Attorney Julius H. Bregman, Commander Hotel, Cambridge. Gould is five feet ten and a half inches tall, weighs 150 pounds, and has medium brown hair brushed straight back, gray eyes, a very light complexion, a prominent nose, and a brown mole on his right cheek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Vanishes in New Disappearance Case; Witness Claims He Saw Burgess Drown in Charles | 1/13/1938 | See Source »

...With them went thousands of peasants, a mule caravan carrying dismantled machinery, Singer sewing-machines, printing equipment. In forced marches, they crossed twelve provinces, over the 16,000-ft. passes of the Tibet mountains, through the swampy wastes of the grasslands in west China, twice missed annihilation by a hair in crossing treacherous, enemy-held rivers. On Oct. 20, 1935. 368 days after their evacuation of south China, the 20,000 survivors of the Red Army arrived in the small Soviet of Shensi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chinese Reds | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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