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Word: lins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...IMPORTANCE OF LIVING-Lin Yu-tang-Reynal & Hitchcock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Sellers | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...know any more than you do. I have never heard him mention it. He has never even hinted it." So said Frank lin Delano Roosevelt's well-schooled, 83-year-old mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, queried in Portland, Me. about her son's attitude toward a third time as President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Chicken Feed | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Importance of Living-Lin Yutang -Reynal & Hitchcock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Sellers | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...best-selling novel usually outsells a best-selling work of nonfiction, two to one. Last month Lin Yutang's philosophic miscellany of Chinese wisdom, The Importance of Living, was the only book that sold equally well in New York City and San Francisco, in Chicago and Dallas, Tex. And although its total sale fell slightly short of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling, it was head and shoulders above rivals in its own field, and the only work of non-fiction in the past season to sell on the scale of best-selling novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Sellers | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...Chicago's Brookfield Zoo bought the late Su Lin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pandamonium | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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