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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reflection on this spring's production to look askance on the Amusing, tuneful, pleasing, all the stock terms of reviewers may apply justly to it; but its content can be no more than training. If this field is to be the future one of the Dramtic Club, it must give up a position once unique and enter into competition with the annual plays, definitely billed as "shows", of the Hasty Pudding and the Pi Eta Clubs. They have filled adequately in the past the place of light stagecraft at Harvard; the Dramatic Club is becoming a somewhat superfluous third person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAST-OFF BUSKIN | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

That is, about 40 living forms secrete a substance called luciferin. In the presence of moisture luciferin oxidizes, forming oxy-luciferin, the substance which actually glows. As oxy-luciferin glows it loses its oxygen and returns to luciferin, which after a short rest may be oxidized again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Popularization | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Marcus action may not seem important from the standpoint of establishing a precedent. Last year's illustration award went to the Cadillac Co., which gave recognition to Artist Thomas L. Cleland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Knavery? | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Fields. Speculative is stock in airplane companies; somewhat less speculative is stock in flying fields, since though companies may come and go, the flying field remains always necessary. So last week reasoned many an air-minded U.S. investor, offered stock in Roosevelt Field, Inc., at $18 a share. The new corporation plans to purchase in fee Roosevelt Field, L.I. (from which Col. Lindbergh made his Paris flight) and adjacent Curtiss Field, to supply hangars for planes and parking space and a restaurant for the general public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Financing | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Mausoleums. The traditional "bad man," asked the conventional question of where he buries his dead, may soon reply, "At Tompkinsville, Staten Island, in the 6,000 mausoleums of Mausoleum Corp. of America." On the site is room for 4,000 additional crypts. Mausoleum Corp. stock is being marketed at $106 a unit (4 Class A, 1 Class B share), is held chiefly by organizers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Financing | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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