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Word: los (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Betty Grable, 20, famed rather for her long-standing (three year) engagement to Coogan than for her cinema roles (Old Man Rhythm, Follow the Fleet); during a recess in the production of College Swing (in which Miss Grable is the lead and Coogan acts a bit part); in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...seven years old, attracts Welsh from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, the rural and mining areas of Ohio and West Virginia. Smaller eisteddfods are held, usually on New Year's Day, in such Pennsylvania industrial centres as Wilkes-Barre. Plymouth. Kingston, Allentown, and in Philadelphia. New York and Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Eisteddfod | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...instead of to the nearer port of Stockton. But the big factor is that water-borne traffic follows a comparatively crude rate structure which does not discriminate in short distances. Cargoes move from Europe or the Atlantic Coast to ports on the Pacific Coast at the same rate for Los Angeles, San Francisco or Seattle. In 1933, however, Director Allin was instrumental in obtaining four amendments to the Intercoastal Shipping Act, which put Stockton on par with other Pacific ports in freight charges, brought most of the intercoastal lines into Stockton. But, in spite ' of last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Stockton's Struggle | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...known as "Terutevaegiai" (young white god on Heaven's highest shelf) by the Tahitians with whom he paddled outrigger canoes, rode surf boards, and whom he defeated in the all-island swimming championship of 1926. His father, Felix Locher, onetime resident of Tahiti, is now a Los Angeles insurance broker. Hall is a second cousin by marriage to Hurricane's coauthor, James Norman Hall. His well-distributed 190-lb. frame enabled him to win fame as a track star and ski-jumper when he left Tahiti to go to school at Neuchatel, Switzerland. He had been acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...benefit of fascinated multitudes in four of the biggest U. S. cities-Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles - planetaria project artificial stars on artificial skies by means of big, complicated, dumbbell-shaped projectors, made by Zeiss and imported from Germany. Present price of a Zeiss instrument is around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Homemade Sky | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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