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Word: interest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME herewith winds up its experiment as a job broker. The following columns of job-wanted letters were chosen for their human interest from among the hundreds TIME has received. Let prospective employers remember that TIME, not equipped as an employment agency, can make no guarantee of any applicant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...natural history of mammals, Birds of the World and Reptiles and Amphibians, in press - are Federal Writers' Publications planned, edited, designed, and partially illustrated by me. Previous to WPA I owned a half interest in a Florida zoo since deleted by the Depression; served on expeditions of the New York Zoological Society to the Galapagos, Cuba, the Okefenokee Swamp;* worked between trips as a hardware salesman, ship's purser; wrote and published scientific articles and a children's book-Strange Animals and Their Ways. Appeared in 5th edition of American Men of Science at 25, just-published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...California's Tom Mooney) who founded Manhattan's Tammany Hall. Lawyer Bijur's late father was Nathan Bijur, a justice of New York's Supreme Court, and his first cousin is Adman George Bijur. The Harry Bijurs have three servants, a Packard, an active interest in Catholic charities, no leanings toward parlor pinkery. They might well tire of having strikers picket their expensive doorstep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Tenants' Revolution | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...fact that often only about twenty out of approximately ninety-five taking History of Religions I last year appeared at the lectures would indicate that the material was horribly presented, for most of those in the course showed some interest when they enrolled. Over forty attended a final review at one tutoring school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

...healthy little sermons about "the criminal lunatics sitting around a big table." For although Basil Rathbone does a good job as the villain, Mars is the real villain. The "poor man's war" angle is unconvincingly put forward, but the flying sequences are good. The picture is sans love interest, with nary a woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

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