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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME (Nov. 27, p. 56) refers to a coin-operated phonograph as a "juke box." Since Gainesville is - if not the birthplace - at least the incubator and nursery for the term, I feel a more-or-less fatherly interest in it and ask that you conform to our usage in...

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

When this fend is carried to the younger generation, the fun really begins. These French youngsters make the Dead End Kids look like a bunch of sissies. They guzzle wine, swear colorfully, completely befuddle their naive schoolmaster, and stage a roaring battle with their bare buttocks billowing in the breeze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

Since that day tennis has made out of many a young player just what Mr. Hardy howled about. Few top-notch tennis amateurs have the time or inclination to get a full-time job nowadays. While the players of the pre-Tilden era were content with a summer junket to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bums' Rush? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Duncan Phillips, critic and collector, once said of Cezanne that "there is no illusion of life in his work, but a plastic equivalent for it which has a life of its won." Now this statement, though not applicable to all of Cezanne's work, is a simple, yet comprehensive summary...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The Civil Aeronautics Authority's flying course at Harvard was a fine idea, and everybody realized, it, including the one hundred and forty students who sought the original fifty vacancies this fall. But thus, far there has been so much red tape and so many delays while the local authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING LOW | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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