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Word: million (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clearing up once and for all the question of a possible marriage, the man who has set the hearts of a million women palpitating said, "I will probably marry again, once I get a divorce from Fay Webb, although I have nobody in mind at the present time. As for the reports linking Mary Brian and myself, they are distinctly erroneous; we are only good friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rudy Vallee Believed He Would Be Somebody Outstanding in Anything That Involves Feeling | 5/1/1935 | See Source »

...card is twenty billion dollars, which we are told, would be thrown into factory expension at the drop of a hat. The hat is the Roosevelt social reform program. But if Frank Lloyd Wright is to be believed when he says that there is nothing so timid as a million dollars, the reticence of twenty billion hardly needs description...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMANDMENTS FROM THE MOUNT | 4/30/1935 | See Source »

Before being appointed to excavate hard soil for Russia's first subway, engaging Engineer Ifremov was in charge of the Moscow Department of Mechanical Transport, ran it into a deficit of one million rubles before he was promoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hard Soil Singer | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...alive as long as possible. Insurance companies paid for these examinations by the Life Extension Institute in precisely the same manner that private doctors are paid for making examinations of applicants for insurance. This seemed to private doctors a potential loss of fees amounting to some three or four million dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Extension | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...same stand, his performances grew routine and his players seemed lazy. But as a musical educator Conductor Damrosch was not to be defeated. National Broadcasting Co. begged him to teach school children, and he was again ready to pioneer. The Damrosch "Appreciation Hour" began by reaching a million youthful listeners. Last week it was estimated that through benign "Uncle Walter" some 6,000,000 children are learning to know great music. Proceeds of last week's Manhattan Jubilee went to the Musicians' Emergency Fund, now Damrosch's pet project. When on the same day NBC feted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jubilee | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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