Search Details

Word: manhattan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...which may do some good. Buchmanism's brisk conversions (drunks into teetotal testifiers, golfing brokers into junior wardens, black sheep into white sheep) appeal to many an earnest, evangelical modern; its vague theology does not offend his beliefs. This attitude was brilliantly exemplified in last week's Manhattan Citizens' Meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MRA Week | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

From Germany, where he has been studying artillery tactics, Japan's Prince Motomichi Mori landed in Manhattan on his way home, said he was eager to go to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...numerous free school clinics, over 95% of U. S. school children are seriously in need of dental care. With these facts in mind, 3,400 members of the Dental Society of the State of New York, largest dental group in the country, met with 4,500 other dentists in Manhattan last week for the prime purpose of discussing Senator Wagner's Bill and how Federal grants to States for their various health plans would affect dental practice. To their dismay, their meeting started off with two surprises not on the agenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Three-Fourths of the Nation | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Orsay Palmer, 34, madcap, four-times-married grandson of Chicago's late rich hotelkeeper and merchant; of a cerebral hemorrhage; four days after a brawl he had started at a barbecue; in Sarasota, Fla. Last year his brother Honore, 29, died while doing setting up exercises in Manhattan (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Died. Frank Moulan, 63, veteran Gilbert & Sullivan baritone ("Ko-Ko," "The Duke of Plaza-Toro," "Sir Joseph Porter") ; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | Next