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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sometimes I think it's the greatest picture ever made. But if it's only a great picture, I'll still be satisfied."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Till last week, white-haired, pink-cheeked Porter Sargent was widely and amiably known as a rich, eccentric Bostonian who publishes the Handbook of Private Schools, whose salty annual prefaces on world affairs amuse many. Last week Mr. Sargent jumped right out of his scholastic skin. Reverting to Revolutionary New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sargent's Bulletins | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

By last week, when Mr. Sargent sent out his 22nd hot bulletin, his audience had become impressive. Egging him on were H. L. Mencken, Boake Carter, John Dewey, Charles Beard, Stuart Chase, Robert Maynard Hutchins, many another bigwig. Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman wrote: "If you cut the bulletins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sargent's Bulletins | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

When Lyle Manly Spencer and Robert Kenneth Burns were at college (University of Washington), they were a famed world-touring debating team, and Burns was also U. S. champion (so named by Pictorial Review) at selling magazine subscriptions. They were graduate students at the University of Chicago when they raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Job Hunters | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Since July 27, the Department of Agriculture has made subsidy commitments on 5,700,000 bales against total exports of only 3,362,000 bales in the cotton year ended July 1, 1939. The balance of the subsidy fund should account for another 600,000 bales at $1 a bale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Dollar Wheat | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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