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Word: haves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rotund, white-bearded Dr. Shull, who looks like Santa Claus, does not feel gypped at having received no royalties so long as he is recognized as the Santa Claus of hybrid corn. But he remarked last week that if he had received the merest fraction of 1? an acre, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Santa Claus's Corn | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Most U. S. song hits are made in the U. S. But last week two imported tunes were leading the U. S. field: 1) the Czech Beer Barrel Polka (550,000 copies sold to date); 2) South of the Border, a song about Mexico by two London Irishmen (Jimmy Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best Sellers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Composer Walton, who had hoped to be there on the night, was busy driving an ambulance somewhere in England. Wrote he, mournfully, in a letter to Violinist Heifetz: "I don't know when I will hear the concerto-perhaps never. I have been hoping that the performance will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sitwell to Heifetz | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

> (From a personality test) Q.: "Do you think that this school is run as if it were a prison?" Reviewer's comment: "It is questionable whether high-school students would have the courage and the desire to answer such questions honestly."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, Oscar! | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The fraternity men proceeded to pass resolutions: condemning Hell Week (initiation week) shenanigans, deploring "recent lapses from good taste on the part of certain fraternity chapters that have lent themselves to pictorial exploitation." Elected president of the National Undergraduate Interfraternity Council was a model boy, Michigan State's Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greeks' Week | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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