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Word: may (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours for luncheon and dinner which at present obtain in the Freshman halls seem to be all that may reasonably be expected in the new Houses. They satisfy virtually all requirements and a further extension would only complicate the matter of service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINING HALL HOURS | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

Novel-readers, relapsing despairingly to the cinema, relapsing disgustedly to novels again, may have wished sometimes for a novel without words, a cinema without moving pictures. Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novel Without Words | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...series of 138 woodcuts, of which every picture helps to tell the story, the allegory of an artist's life is unfolded. The pictures are obvious enough, and placed in such obvious sequence that even a novel-browser may read both tale and fable aright. The artist comes to a strange land, gets into difficulties from which he is rescued by a mysterious masked figure. End of Part I. The artist comes to a city, paints pictures, is taken up by a patron, lionized, supplied with a mistress. End of Part II. He is happy with her until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novel Without Words | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Author-Artist Lynd Ward has woodcut an effective book. His pictures may not please artists, but they will hold the novel-reader, eager for a story. In parts the treatment is strongly reminiscent of German cinema-e.g.. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. But the book is a tour de force; novelists will have little competition from such "novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novel Without Words | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Southward bound for the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta last week were Charles Delos Waggoner who cunningly schemed $500,000 out of six Manhattan banks (TIME, Sept. 16) and George Graham Rice, arch U. S. promoter.* Also last week were broadcast charges which, if proven, may send other schemers to cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Schemes | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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