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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bonefish] is a recondite art" (TIME, May 29) would make one think the taking of the world's greatest gamefish was a privilege reserved for only a few expert anglers. Does TIME know neither how to catch the wily bonefish nor the names of aonefish authorities? Name any given six past masters, one of whom might be willing to tell us how and with what to catch this most elusive speedster. Maybe this is asking too much since TIME did say where and when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Shame on TIME for saying (May 15, p. 87) that Poet Robert Graves served as an officer with the "Royal Welch Fusiliers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...crowd-catcher. A long glass tank is filled with such subaqueous décor as a fireplace, typewriters with funguslike rubber keys, rubber telephones, a man made of rubber ping-pong bats, a mummified cow, a supine rubber woman painted to resemble the keyboard of a piano. Whatever this may mean as art, the exhibitors did not dilly-Dali over it. Into the tank they plunged living girls, nude to the waist and wearing little Gay Nineties girdles and fishnet stockings. Swimming, grimacing, doing the Suzy Q, milking the cow, playing the "piano," these Lady Godivers, seen at close range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt at a press conference, Marriner Eccles in a speech at Boston, last week gave a bit more shape to the big new Spend-Lend program that began looming through the national economic fog three weeks ago (TIME, May 29). Essential nature of this contemplated program is known to be Federal-billions-into-capital-goods. To keep the program from further unbalancing the Budget, most projects in it are supposed to be self-liquidating. Governor Eccles lifted the veil to the extent of listing "toll roads, tunnels and bridges; rural rehabilitation and farm tenancy loans, especially in the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Out of the Fog | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...future anthropologists ever have to plot the world's transition from male to female dominance they may well refer to Their Majesties' visit as early evidence. The most pointed aftermath came from women involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bread-&-Butter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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