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Word: live (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guys sure go to town with your magazine. . . . If enough people could be induced to read TIME, this cockeyed world would get to be a fit place for civilized people to live in, some day, maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Tokyo's live-wire, fast-growing Yominri, listed among the world's "great newspapers" in an Editor & Publisher survey, specializes in foreign news, spends heavily for scoops. Last week Yominri carried an exclusive story of eight Soviet Army officers in the Far East who decided to follow the example of two who recently escaped by airplane to Estonia, saying they had fled to avoid a purge in which hundreds of Soviet Army & Air Force officers are being secretly executed. According to Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Army Purge | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Even mere starting confessions may be found in the editors' introspective preface: "We have dedicated ourselves to a high ideal. . . . We have discovered Radcliffe. . . We don't want to live the Fragile Life and wear body orchids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Etc.," Radcliffe's Funny Mag. Issued | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

...also learned that Hicks would live in Adams House, where he will counsel all members interested in American history and literature. He will thereby be fulfilling the program of President Conant for boosting American civilization in Harvard...

Author: By Ellsworth S. Grant, | Title: Granville Hicks, Communist Writer, Becomes American History Counselor | 4/12/1938 | See Source »

...growth and decline. The shallow Trigorin and the histrionic Irina end up playing lotto. But Nina grows, as one superb device reveals: in Act I, performing in a play of Constantine's she speaks his highfalutin but charged lines mechanically; in Act IV she repeats them, makes them live. It is in delimiting his characters without disfiguring them, in acknowledging their souls but questioning their perspective that Chekhov gives to The Sea Gull a kind of ember like glow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Play and New | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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