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Word: life (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After printing the faces of the war mongers for the past year on your cover will you please let us see the faces of some of our men in public life who do not have murder in their hearts, namely, Borah, Vandenberg, Nye and Hiram Johnson, or is TIME also interested in war profiteering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...much-used bookcases in the unpretentious two-story brick-stucco house in Grand Rapids had been explored night after night; the rolltop desk in his little den had rattled steadily under the impact of his heavy-handed typing. That house holds all of Arthur Vandenberg's private life. There he moved the year (1906) he jumped from city-hall reporter to managing editor of the Grand Rapids Herald-the paper to which he came as a cub the same night in 1902 that Frank Knox also applied for work. To that house went his first wife, Elizabeth Watson, mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Michigander | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Swing will die within the next six months," said Paul Whiteman in 1934. Since then, not only has it made the phonograph record industry worth a small mint, but it has shown nightclub owners and theatre operators that life is something besides a bowl of red ink. The San Francisco Fair wasn't doing too well until Benny Goodman and cohorts arrived on the scene. And we doubt very much that Mr. Whalen has been booking swing bands for the New York Fair because he likes their brand of "jump" music...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

Last June Spencer resigned his position, despite the fact that his concluding appointment had another year to run, to go to Cambridge University, England. There he was to take up a life appointment as visiting lecturer in English literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spencer Kept in America by War; Will Teach Here | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

...principal address will be given by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland whose topic will be "The American Way of Life." Also announced for addresses at general sessions are Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator, Dr. Harry Overstreet, author and lecturer, Ralph L. Lee of General Motors Corporation in Detroit, and others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recreation Conference Will Honor Joseph Lee, Early Benefactor of Graduate Education School | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

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