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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people. But it would only have been to start again once the world had recovered from the shock, and even his own people were beginning to be tired of these repeated crises. . . . Guns instead of butter were becoming more and more unpopular except with the younger generation, and Hitler may well have wondered what might happen to his Nazi revolution if its momentum were allowed to stop. Moreover the financial and economic position of Germany was such that things could scarcely continue as they were without some form of explosion, internal or external. Of the two alternatives the most attractive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...contracted. Meanwhile the Litticks are using all three services, and Beach has signed with Transradio Press for five years. Little Transradio (with only 50-odd U. S. newspaper clients, compared with U. P.'s 1,100, and A. P.'s 1,360) is at best a stopgap, may explain why in the midst of a great war the News concentrates on local affairs. But it will give Clark Beach some kind of national and foreign coverage in case he cannot get what he wants from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 59-Day Wonder | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

After fighting long and hard against the strong groundswell of the publishing business, Scribner's Magazine last May crashed on a reef and foundered. But too old and honored was Scribner's to be abandoned utterly. First, Publisher Dave Smart of Esquire went salvaging on the spot where it had disappeared (TIME, Sept. 4), dredged up its 80,000 circulation at a reputed cost of $11,000. Then Publisher Charles Shipman Payson of The Commentator set out to salvage Scribner's itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scribner's Raised | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Story of a girl who sways a murder-trial jury (TIME, July 24), Ladies and Gentlemen is least feeble during its comedy scenes, when it tweaks the noses of various goofy jurors. As for its love scenes, two people in love may use baby talk, speak in code, communicate through music, or say nothing at all; but (even when on jury duty) they do not talk, as in Ladies and Gentlemen, on stilts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...owned, like Mrs. William du Pont Jr.'s Foxcatcher Beagles (a misnomer,* because a beagle could never catch a fox). Others are subscription packs, like the Treweryn Beagles of Berwyn, Pa. and the Buckram Beagles of Brookville, Long Island, which anyone with sturdy legs and a presentable papa may join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horseless Hunters | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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