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Word: life (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fail to find intelligible. Others, undeceived by the play's pretenses, by its dreary smut, by its fairly frequent lapses into complete and trite absurdity, by long stretches in which author e. e. cummings had obviously fallen into the immature fallacy of trying to tell all about Life in a single paragraph, found partially concealed in its three spasmodic acts many specimens of acute and mordant understanding as well as a fair quantity of ribald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...unfortunate song about "Life is a Play and we all Play a Part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

They moved into the last two miles. Something had certainly happened to Henigan. He was running the best race of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Marathon | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Dirigibles are at least five times safer than airplanes, figure insurance underwriters. They charged Major James Fitzmaurice a 23% premium on his life policy when he began his transatlantic crossing, while 5% is all they charge to insure the dirigible R-100 for her round trip crossings from England to the U. S. and back next autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Insurance | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...issue, Life will reveal a thoroughgoing change in make-up and editorial matters. It will contain less jokes, more features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Potpourri | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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