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Word: loudnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their benches and desks, have been too busy to heed or hear. But last week when the American Associatioi for the Advancement of Science met at Indianapolis, it was perfectly plain that its leaders had begun to think about science & society. Their defenses and explanations of science were loud, lyrical and categorical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World Association? | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...been ever since Christmas), amusing it, scaring it, singing to it, cavorting before it, and even offering to embrace it. For it seems that dramatic expression is not intimate enough, and after the play is over Miss Greenwood overflows with motherly endearments, sings "An Old Man's Darling" in loud and lusty shrieks, and then burlesques sex in a piece called "Moon Melody," using to capacity her amazingly ungainly person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

...such people, confident in Right, the discovery of oil last spring near Guaranty's El Segundo holdings was no surprise. Talk of a dollar-for-dollar payment to shareholders grew loud as President Murphy leased the property in exchange for a 16% royalty on any oil produced, last week reached a mighty crescendo: the Guaranty's first well produced 2,500 barrels of oil on its first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Great Expectations | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...Congressional Record knew their Genesis and had given back the coat of many colors to its proper owner, Joseph. Texan Maverick relished it so much that he requested a report on the 40 Government Printing Office employes who have the awful job of reading the Congressional Record out loud to each other every night. In a solemn rejoinder the Government Printing Office listed other grievous blunders its proofreaders had caught. Sample: a speaker recently mentioned Bancroft's ghost. "Banquo," said the report, "was the party referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wise Proofreaders | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...neither sets nor costumes to help him say it. What Mr. Blitzstein has to say concerns what happens to bosses and workers when a steel town goes on strike. If sometimes he uses stock characters and stock works, he more often uses bright, biting satire. The audience laughs out loud when the spoiled son and daughter of a steelmaster try to throw off their ill-natured boredom with a tinny song about spooning and crooning, when a college president and his professors shout mealy-mouthed patriotic jingo. There is good, contemptuous laughter behind The Cradle Witt Rock and that laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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