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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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1) He turns a gigantic somersault, once every 24 hours, because of the earth's daily rotation on its axis. If he lives half way between the North Pole and the Equator, this motion carries him along along at some 700 miles per hour.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Many Motions | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

When his first Broadway play, My Heart's in the Highlands, closed last week. Modest-Violet William Saroyan wired th Broadway critics: "The custom of reviewing a play on opening night is a good one, I believe, but not quite complete enough. I sincerely suggest, therefore that, if possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: First & Last | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

The public could even troop through Mr. Morgan's study, with its Bellini and Memling paintings on the walls, its desk ready to write a letter or sign a check at, its fire neatly laid for the next chill night. Nothing was said about coughing, but Library guards looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Public Sees | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

If a bridge fails, if a freight train gets shunted to the main line, or somebody leaves a bomb on the track, it will be 30 minutes before the train bearing King George VI and Queen Elizabeth across Canada this week (see p. 22) comes upon the wreckage of its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Royal Press | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Eager to bolster its team for the coming futebl (soccer) season, Rio de Janeiro's Vasco da Gama club, one of coffee-growing Brazil's eight major-league futeból teams, tried last week to buy a famed Uruguayan player named Figliola. To their dismay, the Vasco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bartered Ballplayer | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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