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Word: marvell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...congratulating Dr. Curtius, I cannot help but marvel at his children's unusually fast growth. My probable reason for noticing this error (if error it be) is that I was very much amused at your first description of family man Curtius and his bachelor friend. Brüning. Though a "bungler" and lacking genius, you must admit that Husband Curtius is no ordinary man, according to the above statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1931 | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

Although some people marvel that the overlord of Zion City is worth $10,000,000, he clearly stated this upon his arrival last week in Manhattan. "Certainly I'm worth $10,000,000," he cried. "I own everything in Zion City-the factories, the land. I made $100,000 last year out of my Zion fig bars alone. I have 26 departments in my department store. Any manager who doesn't make a profit I fire. I am 61 and in the prime of condition. I do the work of twelve men. If you stripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Profits of a Prophet | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Magic Carpet. After this announcement, the only thing observers could do was sit back and marvel at the good fortune which had brought such a Report to Herbert Hoover. It was not a mere political platform, nailed down to girders of decision and principle. It was a magic carpet upon which any candidate for the Presidency in 1932 could fly now East, now West; now Dry, now Wet. Had President Hoover been so overweening as to ask Chairman Wickersham for a politically ideal report, Chairman Wickersham could not have complied more skilfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wicker shambles | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...played with Tom Shevlin and I think the world will never see a better end. . . . What a job . . . Pennock [did to us] in 1912. . . . Ticknor's performance last Saturday was superb, tremendous, but considering the three-year record . . . I played with Ted [Coy] and he was a marvel. He'd just run through them and the tacklers would fall aside, a lot of them with broken bones. . . . The greatest player I have ever seen? . . . Eddie Mahan. . . . The greatest Big Three team since 1904? . . . My 1923 team had a slight advantage over the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-American | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

Elected. Charles Anderson Boston, 67. of Manhattan; to be president of the American Bar Association, succeeding the late Josiah Marvel, of Wilmington. He is a member of the American Law Institute, committeeman of the New York State Bar association, vice president of the New York County Lawyers Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 10, 1930 | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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