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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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> The Turners-nine in all-are Negro sharecroppers, who clear about $50 a year. Thinks Grade: "De gover'ment's got no business a-payin' out relief money and a-givin' WP and A jobs to farmers. . . . If 'twas fixed right dey'd make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voice of the People | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Two years ago, Leo Calvin Rosten, 31, Polish-born teacher, humorist, researcher, social scientist, won pseudonymous fame as Leonard Q. Ross, author of The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. When that book appeared, Author Rosten was in Washington, working on a serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tinsel | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

In Dateline: Europe he adds a split to the already dual personality of Rosten and Ross, in a glib, neatly joined short novel about a foreign correspondent. Laid in Belgovenia, it covers the adventures of Peter Strake and girls in an abortive Putsch, drips conversational tinsel like a Christmas tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tinsel | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

I have been following your "anticram school" crusade with some sympathy and interest but feel that you have them far over-emphasized one aspect of the evil while almost wholly neglecting another. I refer to your long editorial on faculty responsibility. How is it so little has been said of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter on Tutoring | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

It is rather obvious that you have drawn a false picture in the editorial referred to above since, if it were all as you allege, those "stupid faculty" who are unable to organize their work well must be inferior to the "cram-school" instructional staff which is able to put...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter on Tutoring | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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