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Word: max (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid as much as $480 for their passage; distraught women; doctors and lawyers who had lost their practices; men who had been in concentration camps. There were 500 women on board. There was Max Loewe, a lawyer, with his wife and two children. There were 150 other children, 106 of them under ten. In the strange, fear-ridden, hope-ridden atmosphere of refugee ships, compounded of anxiety, relief, tension, they waited, living until their voyage's end under the terrible shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Endless Voyage | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Flushing, N. Y., World's Fair bus horns, instead of raucous honks, dulcetly tootle a few bars of The Sidewalks of New York. Results: Instead of getting out of the way, pedestrians stop to listen; Copyright Owner Max Mayer decided to demand royalties for each performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Max Lerner with firsts in the 100 and 220-yard dashes, the Lowell House track team scored 58 1/2 points to win the inter-House title for the second straight year Friday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL TRACKSTERS WIN | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Tsar to Lenin," a documentary film tracing Russia's history through the World War and the 1917 Revolution and edited and commented on by Max Eastman, will be presented tomorrow evening at 8 oclock in the New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Harvard Socialist League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Tsar to Lenin" Slated For New Lecture Hall Tomorrow | 5/25/1939 | See Source »

...last season, Hollywood had no production finger in any important Broadway pie. But unlike last season, it paid some fancy prices for hits. Abe Lincoln in Illinois was sold to Max Gordon Plays & Pictures Co. Inc. on a cash and royalty basis that may come to over $300,000, set a record. The American Way was sold to Gordon for $250,000. Setting a precedent, The Philadelphia Story was sold to Katharine Hepburn (its star) before it ever opened on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Cash Register | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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