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Word: latters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Langdon Burwell '41 and Lawrence Lader '41 the undergraduate family consists of a hundred student volunteers who each tutor a graduate from some high school who because of his financial situation is unable to attend college. Once or twice a week the student meets the volunteer instructor in the latter's college room, shares his notes and books and occasionally attends lectures with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE STARTS YEAR WITH OPEN HOUSE | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

...There's a word for you," says Joan Crawford to Norma Shearer after losing a bitter battle to vamp the latter's spouse, "but they only use it in kennels." This briefly is the tenor of "The Women," currently showing at both Loew's theatres. It is often said that if the movies would only paint life as it actually is and not as Hollywood script writers think it is, the attendance at the many movie palaces would be far greater. Metro must have taken this frequent criticism to heart when it produced this most realistic of realistic pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

...colors of their embattled countries last week flocked millions of little names, dozens of big. Some of the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Names | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Five years ago, even one year ago, English and U. S. readers would have found it more profitable if less pat. Souvarine's Stalin, published first in French several years ago, the work of a onetime member of the Executive of the Communist International, is practically unique among latter-day Bolshevist or ex-Bolshevist writings in carrying authority for the sane Western mind. With the knowledge of an insider and the detachment of a historian, Souvarine shows how Stalin succeeded to Lenin's power, how Socialism miscarried in his hands, and why the Soviet-German non-aggression pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Background for War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...that fitted over gas masks, recommended "a simplified form . . . consisting of: 1) an unstarched, tight-fitting cap or snugly fitting under-veil, over which the respirator could easily be adjusted, 2) a heavier outer-veil which could be pulled back over the head harness of the respirator when the latter is in use." >Canceled was the Salvation Army's farewell party in London's Earl's Court to General Evangeline Booth, for which 25,000 tickets had been sold. >At the domed Church of the Sacred Heart on Paris' Montmartre, Cardinal Verdier blessed the overflow crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Litany | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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