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Word: irises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Wallaces' Farmer and Iowa Homestead printed the story of the Renshaws. Mr. and Mrs. Renshaw and their three children live on a farm in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. The farm business was bad three years ago, and the Renshaws' luck was worse. After 30 years on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Crops and Prospects | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile the Museum moved from its five rooms to five floors of a greystone mansion on 53rd Street, in view of the back windows of the Rockefeller home. Membership ($10 a year) shot up by leaps & bounds. The board of trustees became a galaxy of the enlightened rich. Greatest of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beautiful Doings | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

With the goddess, Iris, careening, in on roller skates and a chorus, grotesquely masked in ancient Greek dramatic fashion "trucking" out to the tune of modern Jazz-blues, the 20th century A.D. and the 5th century B.C. join hands as the Harvard Classical Club whips into final shape its presentation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorus Trucks, Swings as Classical Club Portrays Aristophanes' "Birds" | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

For example, Hooton found nine features characteristic of robbers-such things as attached ear lobes, heavy beards, diffused pigment in the iris. In a group of 414 robbers, six had none of these characteristics at all, no robber had all nine, and only one had as many as seven. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: After Lombroso | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

To these, in The Lady Vanishes, is added a story which will remind admirers of Alex ander Woollcott of his famed anecdote about the young lady who, visiting Paris with her mother, was sadly disconcerted one day to find that the old lady had Disappeared and that nobody would admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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