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Word: morely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morning's at Seven (by Paul Osborn; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). Two seasons ago the Broadway critics threw their hats in the air over Playwright Osborn's On Borrowed Time, a deft piece of flimsy-whimsey about a small boy, an old man, and Death kept at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

To be sure, the play hasn't a very giddy or glamorous look. It all takes place in the backyards of two much-curlycued 18901sh houses, and it tells of people who moved into them when they were built. There are four sisters of 65 and upwards, three of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

But as observant realistic comedy of banal family life, it is probably closer to the U. S. common denominator than Our Town or Life with Father. Much more of this life is skim milk or spilt milk than cream. It is a chronicle of vanishing dreams and growing regrets, of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Few scientists have been more tender, sympathetic parents than Charles Darwin, father of ten. But Darwin was a scientist first, a father afterward. From the moment his first child, William Erasmus ("Doddy"), was born, 100 years ago, the eager Revolutionist began to take notes on his infants' wailing, coughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Daddy Darwin | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Trends. Almost everyone thinks he knows what a trend is, but to a sociologist a trend is a numerical series showing change in a more or less constant direction. The University of Chicago's tall, affable William Fielding Ogburn has made a special study of trends. He once headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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