Word: million
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unique as Sprinter Owens, Writer Margaret Mitchell uncorked in 1936 the first first-novel ever to sell a million copies in six months, Gone With The Wind (TIME, July 6). Animal of the Year was the Baby Giant Panda whose mistress calls...
...hundreds of millions of lips last week was the name of a most unhappy woman, Mme Chiang. Four hundred and fifty million Chinese could imagine nothing more poignant than the reported fainting and prostration of Dictator Chiang Kai-shek's wife as she sat beside a radio in her sumptuous Nanking home and heard her husband's kidnapper, the Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang (TIME, Dec. 21) broadcast from Sian in central China that his men had not only kidnapped but also murdered China's Dictator...
...about the tremendous issues at stake as about money. Of course Young Chang did not threaten to kill Dictator Chiang unless he was paid a given sum. That would have been nonsense. The position of each of these two Chinese was of such eminence and power that a few million dollars more or less was not to them what it is to the Duke of Windsor. By "money" they understood the unstinted millions which a Hitler or Stalin has at his command, plus unstinted hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers to give such money the reality of power If this...
Because they usually have to work & play too hard and go to bed too early, the 12 million small fry who compose a substantial element of the U. S. cinema audience cannot get to the theatre as much as either they or Hollywood producers would like. Vacations are exceptions. On the theory that children like pictures about children, several such appear at Christmas, at Easter and in June. Released on schedule last week were two major productions involving the top single-digit stars of both sexes, RKO's Bobby Breen, 9, and Twentieth Century-Fox's Shirley Temple...
Although Harvard is but one step nearer to actual acquisition of several million dollars, it is not too early to encourage thorough discussion of the uses to which it might be put. Three approaches seem possible today; the establishment of a Graduate School of Journalism, the opening of a new undergraduate Field of Concentration, or the building upon courses already established. Each suggestion has measurable validity; each is open to sharp criticism. And the question as to what extent the teaching of journalism can be divorced from actual newspaper experience cannot be disentangled from the main theme. Then...