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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incidentally, the "Giornale Radio" of the E.I.A.R., although censored, is the most accurate in Europe. If you don't believe it, just tune in on one (six times a day, 8 a.m., 1, 2, 5, 8 and 11 p.m.).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

There is one that Buck Duke used to tell on himself, of the time Mrs. Duke was dragging him through Europe into art galleries, cathedrals, etc., and while visiting Canterbury Cathedral, Buck felt tired. He seated himself in the nearest pew which happened to be the choir stalls. Quickly a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Question Mark. It is this vast, untapped, bookless audience that most excites those concerned with increasing U. S. book-reading. It has been claimed that if a way could be found to irrigate this desert, U. S. book sales would soar by 85%. Most observers agree that there are only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap Books | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Quicksand? With the exception of smart Simon & Schuster, who have a share in the business, most publishers were skeptical. Said one: "We are cooperating because of all the agitation for cheap books and the success of cheap books in Europe. We feel we ought to give it a chance-to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap Books | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Adventurer Miller tells how boys' noses are bored to take inch-wide bamboo plugs in each nostril, how a native village smells two days' travel away ("an acrid odor . . . like smoke from a bonfire of rubber boots"), how a trail-cutter can die from a cobra bite before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Festive Vertebrae | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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