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Word: lifes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...launching of a CRIMSON campaign against the schools comes as the culmination of widespread dissatisfaction with the enlarged role they have played in University life of the past few years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Inaugurates Campaign to Eliminate the Tutoring Schools | 4/18/1939 | See Source »

...Brite Skin Bleach will overnight, or in any stated time, make the skin five shades lighter or that Lucky Mojo, Good Luck Incense, Hindoo Mystic Love Perfume, Holy Oil with Live Loadstone or High John the Conqueror Root and other similar products bring good luck, love, romance, power, life, inspiration, easy money or irresistibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Not Irresistible | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Civic boosters are likely to damn his book, to complain at the bleakness of the picture he draws. Dilemma of Five Cities is that Author Leighton's enthusiasm for the color and gusto of U. S. life is always at war with his knowledge of the violence of much of U. S. history. But in telling the story in local, rather than national terms, Five Cities suggests that he has tapped one of the richest of unworked U. S. historical mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Landmarks | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...heavy-jowled, bearded, 48-year-old Elliot Paul might be pointed as moral for expatriates. Living in Europe most of the time since 1925, he has published eight books; all except one dealt with Americans. But the only success among them was the one with foreign characters: The Life and Death of a Spanish Town, which told the tragic story of Santa Eulalia, where Elliot Paul lived from 1931 until his last-minute departure aboard a German cruiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gas Bomb | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...TROOP-Paul I. Wellman-Carrick & Evans ($2.75). A first novel, this has two distinctions: 1) Author Wellman, newspaperman and ex-cowboy, is a Western historian, author of an excellent study of Indian war, Death in the Desert; 2) his Jubal Troop makes a fortune instead of leading a romantic life among scenes of gun play, escape, cattle rustling, prospecting, big-time gambling. Author Wellman's gratuitous moral: Jubal Troop's money-grabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Novels | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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