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Word: moring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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> (From a test to rate an individual's attitude toward any institution) Q.: "This institution 1) is the most beloved of institutions, 2) is necessary to the very existence of civilization, 3) gives real help in meeting moral problems, 4) will destroy civilization if it is not radically changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, Oscar! | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Died. Lewellyn Powys, 55, third of the literary Powys brothers (the others, Theodore Francis and John Cowper), descendant of William Cowper and John Donne; of tuberculosis; in Davos Platz, Switzerland. Ill off and on for 30 years, Lewellyn Powys underscored in his writings (best known: Ebony and Ivory, Skin for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Died, James Harvey Gravell, 63, president and only stockholder of American Chemical Paint Co., who three years ago paid off $100,000 in personal debts for 76 employees; of cancer of the liver; in Abington, Pa. In the last three years he issued $200,000 in bonuses. Reason for his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The opera has been Milton Cross's job, hobby, and spiritual sustainer for more years than NBC has been a patron. As a boy, vacationing from his Hell's Kitchen Manhattan neighborhood, he fought for the job of delivering butter to the great Louise Homer's country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

He is undoubtedly the people's choice for musical programs. When he has no programs to announce, he has to sit watch in an empty studio, waste his vast voice every 15 minutes or so saying "WJZ, New York" during station breaks. For these exalted and lowdown services, his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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