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Dates: during 1930-1939
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I doubt if this is correct. I have never heard it so named. It is generally referred to as "thrippence" or "thrippenny bit" and in somewhat vulgar circles as a "tizzy."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Your article on hearing (TIME, Nov. 6) was very interesting and the accompanying diagram was excellent. However, I would like to know the source of your information when you say, "the 20,000,000 U. S. citizens who are grouchy, timid or asocial because their ears are dull." If you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Your second mistake is much the same. You say that the Right Hon. E. A. Lapointe might be Prime Minister of Canada "if he were British." As a Canadian, and therefore a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, Mr. Lapointe would be the first to tell you that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

There wasn't much time, even though he'd been so early. The sound of the crowd flowed into the room, pushing everything else into an undertone. It made his stomach tighten even more, and he felt as if time had suddenly begun to quicken, pulling him along with it...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: The Vagabond | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

If color is any indication, Yale had twelve men on the field most of the time since there was a lone Cambridge bluecoat on duty behind the end zone at the east end of the Stadium throughout the game.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time Out | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

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