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Word: live (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show the public. In a new Hall of Man they want to show "man's embryology, development of his body, unfolding of his behavior, his genetics, and a resume of his achievements over the ages." They want a microvivarium to show how ameba and other one-cell animals live. They want to show how to farm frogs, how to make pocketbooks from snake skins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Museum Wants | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

KEITHS R. K. O.--Cafe Metropole: 10.10, 1.05, 4.10, 7.10, 10.05. Very amusing. Let Them Live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS WEEK'S FILMS | 5/26/1937 | See Source »

...Methodist institution, opened in 1914 on Washington's northwest side, American University has ever since been trying to live up to its imposing name. To most Washingtonians it is merely a trim collection of white buildings. Students of the social sciences know and respect its School of Public Affairs and its earnest Graduate School. To diplomatic Washington, however, American University is notable as the school where Ellery Cory Stowell teaches international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hall of Nations | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

They Gave Him A Gun (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "I live for my country and work for it . . .'' says Jimmy (Franchot Tone) in this picture, "but when they order me to travel 3.000 miles to be a butcher, I quit." This is just after he has fainted from disgust during a 1917 bayonet drill and is being revived by his buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy). At the front, equipped with a high-powered rifle and good eyesight, Jimmy's attitude changes. When luck puts him in a church steeple with a perfect chance to pick off five members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 24, 1937 | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...Texas he noted that most citizens seemed satisfied to stay there in spite of one who declaimed: "If they gave me hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in hell." Oklahoma was one long dust storm. He felt he could not improve on the seventh-grade essayist who wrote: "Dust, that terrible word dust, when we hear the word our mind turns to thinking of coughing, choking particles that come from somewhere to make our days unpleasant. . . . One thing we can be proud of United States dust storms are the latest thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. in a Bus | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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