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Word: matthews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson's son Dr. Bull's appetites are scandalously hearty. An increasing faction in New Winton, led by First Lady Mrs. Banning and puritanical Matthew Herring, find them an abomination, mutter also at the slapdash way Doc Bull treats his patients, public opinion, his Board of Health job. The doctor, an active, level-headed but choleric 60-year-old, has no very exalted view of medicine, speaks his candid mind on all occasions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dr. Bull | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...Hemingway-Scribner ($3.50). FOCH- Capt. B. H. Liddell Hart- Little, Brown ($4). GEORGE GERSHWIN'S SONGBOOK - illustrated by Alajalov - Simon & ($5)- GROVER CLEVELAND - Allan Nevins Dodd, Mead ($5). HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Vol. I. - Leon Trotsky - Simon & Schuster ($4). INTERPRETATIONS - Walter Lippmann Macmillan ($2.50). JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU - Matthew Josephson - Harcourt, Brace ($5). THE JOURNAL OF ARNOLD BENNETT Vols. I & II- Viking ($4 each). THE LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE edited by Aldous Huxley - Viking ($5). LIVES - Gustav Eckstein - Harper ($3). THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY - James Truslow Adams - Scribner ($3.50). MARK TWAIN'S AMERICA - Bernard De Voto - Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: NON-FICTION | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

Delmar Leighton '19, dean of Freshmen, Assistant Deans W. J. Bender '27 and Henry Chauncey '28, Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, Matthew Luce '91, Regent of the University, and the head proctors will dine with the Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN CHRISTMAS DINNER TO BE TONIGHT | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

Bright Spot of the convention was the report of Matthew Woll, favorite colleague of the late great Samuel Gompers, showing that his Union Labor Life Insurance Co. (sponsored by the A. F. of L.), had recorded an 18% increase in business last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Federation's 52nd | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...first issue: more on Life-After-Death by Sir Oliver Lodge; an argument for parachutes for airline passengers by 'Chute-Inventor Floyd Smith; industrial application of intelligence tests, by Colgate University's Professor Donald Anderson Laird; Sunlight v. Windows by General Electric's Physicist Matthew Luckiesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Progress | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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