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Word: headedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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They attest to a brilliant sun that glinted off the dazzling white of the Panay's squat hull. They show that the attack was methodical, crafty, well-aimed. Because the cameramen (Universal's Norman Alley, Movietone's Eric Mayell) stayed on the Panay to take shots of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Word | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

But pleasantness was not the idea. The mists & veils of Denishawn soon gave way to High Priestess Martha Graham's surrealistic fence-act. Frontier, and to stylized swaying and leaping by dead-pan Grahamite assistants. Favored by streamlined technique and by an early position on an anti-climactic program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Modern Dancers | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Sadly Cuba decreed two days' national mourning, dispatched the gunboat Patria for the bodies and a seven-man commission to investigate the freak accident. Promptly Mexico's Congress voted three planes, headed by their army air ace Colonel Roberto Fierro and carrying both Mexican and Cuban flags, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Goodwill Flight | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

U. G. I. immediately procured a restraining order from the State Supreme Court preserving the status quo until this week. Simultaneously Sheriff William J. Hamilton Jr., Mayor Wilson's bitterest political foe, ostentatiously mobilized 160 pudgy deputies "to enforce the orders of the courts." The Civil Service Commission in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fun in Philadelphia | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Although Morgan has been the subject of many a scientific memoir, U. S. readers got their first intimate glimpse of him last week, when Professor Leslie A. White edited a 174-page, paperbound volume of extracts from a journal that Morgan kept on a European journey in 1870-71. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Scientist | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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