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Word: maile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Gus went to live at the White House. One day the well-trained White House servants heard a burst of jangled melody from the East Room, hurried in and found Gus, who had taught himself to play the piano by a mail-order system, pounding out jazz on the famous gilt piano. Thereafter he moved to the Mayflower Hotel, but he remained popular with the Roosevelts, their official friends, and particularly the children at Warm Springs, for whom he once did a hula dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personal Loss | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...year ago to write a treatise. Here the contest closes Sept. I and I haven't written a line!" With that Rev. Dr. Henry Allan Ironside grabbed a handful of pencils, a package of copy paper. On an eastbound train, he had a chapter ready to mail from Canton, Ohio. By the time Evangelist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ironside Broadside | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Jack I. Horovitz when he graduated from Princeton in 1925. Princeton's comprehensive upperclass examinations cannot be easily crammed for. Hun's patrons are almost exclusively freshmen and sophomores. Princeton has never taken official notice of Tutor Hun, except to protect dullards from a flood of Hun mail by ruling three years ago that failures in courses should not have their names publicly posted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Councilors & Tutors | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Chicago last week the directors and principal stockholders of Spiegel, May, Stern Co. Inc., mail-order house, sat down in a buff-paneled room a mile west of Comiskey Ball Park to approve three timely measures: 1) a five-for-one split in the company's common stock, creating 1,265,000 shares out of 253,000 now outstanding; 2) an extra dividend of $2 a share on the present common; 3) a change of their corporate name to Spiegel, Inc. Each in its own way, these three acts celebrated a remarkable feat of applied business science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Science for Spiegel's | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...interested and expect to attend the meetings in the future are requested to leave their names in the mail box of Lowell House Q-21. The Society plans to have a series of meetings and all members of the other Houses are invited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newly Formed Lowell House Science Society Hears Speech on Atmosphere | 12/10/1936 | See Source »

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