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Word: highnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looks younger than when he left the White House. He is red-faced, cherubic, and still wears the high collars, high shoes, the slightly pained and embarrassed smile that have always made him an easy target for cartoonists. His only political characteristic is that he smokes cigars. But he hates to be photographed doing it. He sometimes drinks a cocktail. Reporters who interview him now find that he has few doubts-of himself, of his ideas, of the U. S., of the prospect that the G. O. P. can defeat the New Deal in 1940. The apostle of confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Symbol | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Japanese soldiers were caked in mud, chest high; their beards were bristling with two weeks' growth; and they were ravenously hungry. The peasants, in fleeing before the approach of the Japanese, had taken their pigs, cows, grain and other food with them into the hills where the Japanese could not follow. All through the valley, tiny Japanese garrisons were mired in mud, unable to communicate with one another, and slowly starving. When off duty, simple soldiers would sneak out of their garrison posts in twos and threes and rove the countryside looking for abandoned chickens and eggs-many were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...second group of loaders then takes the scenery out of the trucks, and gives it to a second set of stagemen. Also, non-union orchestra men or conductors may be used only if an equal number of union men are paid to stay away. Needless to say, prohibitively high wages are paid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABOR PAINS | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

Baketball, for example, has Paul Busse, a six-footer who learned the game at Newark Academy, ready to step in and replace Giles Scofield, Princeton's captain and high scorer in 1939. In fact Busse, a good hall handler, a fine shot and a digger for forty minutes, already has won for himself the pivot sport, making him the only Sophomore on the starting five that has been used to date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Optimistic Over Winter Sports Prospects | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...above it and become people. John Holabird's sets, especially Mona's apartment, bear all the earmarks of something bound for Broadway. The Newberry-Rollins music (there should have been more of it!) fitted in beautifully with the Profit dance effects, and the two combined produced some of the high sports in the show...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: Tbe Playgoer | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

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