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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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As a color-drenched spectacle, Swingin' the Dream is as good as a parade with floats, and some of its specialty acts are excellent. As a show, it falls flat as a pancake. It is overcrowded, overelaborate, too much of a good thing, like being in nine theatres at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

The question has often been raised whether the social sciences are sciences at all. Certainly they occupy a place on the fringe of the physical and biological sciences, from which they must draw much of their nourishment. "Sociology," a term coined about a century ago by the French Philosopher Auguste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Robert Redfield, dean of U. of C.'s Division of Social Sciences, is a cultural anthropologist who had the pleasure of discovering, in 1937, a town in Guatemala whose inhabitants had never heard of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Wallis Warfield Windsor, the Dionne Quintuplets. Last week Dr. Redfield declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

If a wise citizen of Paris wants to know what Hitler and Stalin are thinking, what will be the next fantastic episode in an improbable war, he reads what Geneviéve Tabouis has to say in L'Oeuvre, then waits for the exact opposite to happen. For Tabouis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aunt Genevi | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Silver-haired, sharp-tongued, zealous Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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