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Word: lied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rats!" snapped Mr. Montgomery to his studio ratters, and ear-cocked terriers dashed excitedly to the chase in countless homes of England. "Lie down," "Find it," "Jump over the poker," went more commands. Rattling food pans and garbage cans, the Montgomerys for a memorable 15 minutes had every listening dog in England in a dither. When a Montgomery Dalmatian greedily chewed up a dog biscuit before the microphone, dog-owners reported widespread mouth watering. When Montgomery fox terriers, Peter and Jock, got to growling, hackles rose the length and breadth of Britain. When Tippler, a tough Corgi, refused to "speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dog Day | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...death. On the way Leporello disappears. Doña Ana suspects him of having invented the whole story. Sure enough, first Leporello, then Juan himself reappears. It seems that Juan had merely had a bad case of nettle rash, which marred his handsome face, so he had wanted to lie low for a few days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Juan, Cont'd | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...beery mugs, walls crowded with faded photographs and playbills-an "old uncle of a house," as Booth Tarkington described it. Still kept just as he left it- except that the bedsheets are said to be changed occasionally-is the room where Booth lived & died. In tall wall-safes lie carefully preserved costumes and relics of Booth and other actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: First Fifty | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...convinced," he said, "that the schools must sacrifice a certain amount of the ground now covered and devote more time to the teaching of note-taking, the handling of lecture material and long-range reading assignments. The students are not going to lie down on the job when they realize what the price may be: failure to get into college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowditch Shows Need for Modern Teaching System | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

Rightist long-range objectives appeared to be Barcelona, Loyalist capital, and Tarragona, to the south, from 60 to 80 miles away. Many ranges of hills lie between the front and the objectives. More important than anything else, however. Generalissimo Franco hopes to provide his ally. Dictator Benito Mussolini, with a first-class victory before January 11, when Dictator Mussolini meets British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at Rome. Dictator Mussolini wants very much to persuade Mr. Chamberlain to grant Generalissimo Franco belligerent rights, most valuable of which would be the right to blockade. After that Loyalist Spain, already near famine, could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Win the War | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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