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Word: jans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wing. Well he knew that broad-beamed radial air-cooled motors, such as the big U. S. engine builders have brought to perfection, could not be used on such a ship without protruding in speed-killing humps on the wing's leading edges, that only the Allison (TIME, Jan. 30) could do the job cut out for the new fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sleek, Fast and Luckless | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Virginia Grimes ; in Union, Mo. Charge: "general indignities." Died. Mrs. Charles W. Gamble ("Mollie Ticklepitcher"), 51; of cancer; in Jasper, Tenn. A tank town actress, she hoaxed Phillips Lord into letting her speak over his We, the People radio program by passing herself off as a backwoods midwife (TIME, Jan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Though the Barnes-de Mazia book (their fourth in collaboration)† was not quite on the dot to celebrate the centenary of Paul Cezanne's birth (Jan. 19, 1839), it clarified considerably the reasons for celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Barnes on Cezanne | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...third of a nation" (Paramount) is an adaptation of the Federal Theatre Project's most successful play (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938). It was directed by Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones) and produced in Astoria, L. I.'s Eastern Service Studios by Harold Orlob. Its purpose: to denounce bad housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Social Insignificance | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

They Made Me a Criminal (John Garfield, Gloria Dickson, Dead End Kids; TIME, Jan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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