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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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At other sports Eleonora Sears has been equally staminous. Ten years ago she hiked 73 miles in 17 hours, has often walked from Boston to Providence (47 miles) "just for the exercise." Once she swam five miles off Newport. She was one of the first U. S. women to go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Radio Comic Fred Allen, having hugely annoyed Philadelphia's Chamber of Commerce by wisecracking about the smallness of a Philadelphia hotel room he once put up in (TIME, Dec. 18), tried to make amends by explaining that times had changed; but that old room, said he, "was so small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Next night through the false front of tall white columns erected to make Atlanta's Grand Theatre look like Tara (the O'Hara plantation in Gone With the Wind) streamed a privileged 2,031 who were going to see the picture whose title Hollywood had been abbreviating for...

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

Selznick read the synopsis. With the sad fate of So Red the Rose in mind, he was in no hurry to pay $50,000 for another Civil War book, and a first novel to boot. But when Selznick International's Board Chairman John Jay ("Jock") Whitney offered to buy...

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

The late leggy, lantern-jawed Sidney Howard was one of the ablest, most dependable scripters who ever turned his successful plays into equally successful movies (The Silver Cord, Yellow Jack, Dodsworth). Selznick considered Playwright Howard "a great constructionist" and turned to him in his hour of need. After a brief...

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

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