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Word: joys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grinding chain struck his ears and the Vagabond turned to look at the railway. His boat was setting down stern-first into the water now, easily, smoothly, gently, like a thing alive and yet afraid of violent exertion. The Vagabond rose and walked shoreward, his heart, full of joy. The days of winter were over, his duties done for a spell, his heart and his mind and his senses all keen to go down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

Group one on the program will consist of "shout For Joy" by Bach, "Supplications" by Palestvina, and "Chey-uses For Freemasons" by Mozart. In the second group the Glee Club will sing choruses from "the Yeoman of the Guard" by Sullivan, "Liebeslieder," and three folk songs by Brahms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB PRESENTS SECOND YARD CONCERT | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

...three shows needed no prodding to deplore Nazi treatment of the artist. No abstractionist. Kathe Kollwitz is a weighty, marvelously skilled draftsman in the great 19th-Century line. It is her subject matter, always proletarian, bitterly naturalistic and sorrowful, that rules her out of the "Strength through Joy" school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Strength Through Sorrow | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Ervin Elzie Joy, 28, of Vancouver, Wash., operates a railroad drawbridge. In his spare time he is an Unlicensed air pilot and builds planes. After five years of patient tinkering, Inventor Joy produced a 28-foot, wingless, flat fuselage shaped like an attenuated sting ray, which he called a Flying Flapjack. Last week he announced that his Flapjack was ready for tests, almost ready for mass production, would revolutionize aviation. At Vancouver's Pearson Field one afternoon unlicensed Test Pilot Sidney Monastes climbed aboard, tuned the twin 38-h.p. motors, taxied out for the start. The Flapjack roared, reared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flapjack Flipped | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...skirts in 1893." At this admission Northwestern University students guffawed. Aroused Chicagoans decided to nail the canard by finding and proclaiming Chicago's prettiest girl. Last week, after pondering many pictures from a photographer's files, the three judges assigned to the job picked an indubitable stunner, Joy Hawley. Too late they discovered that Miss Hawley's picture had slipped in by mistake, that she was a Northwestern girl, queen of that university's Navy Ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago's Prettiest | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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