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Word: mothered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi Göring. Their presence was sufficient authority, so Blomberg appeared to have thought, for the match. But the generals snorted that not even a lieutenant would have been permitted to wed "socially impossible" Miss Erika Gruhn, a stenographer whose father is a carpenter and whose mother is a licensed masseuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Purge No. 2 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Hollywood parents, exhibits another show-struck girl, Edith Fellows, making the most of her opportunity when allowed to do a number at a benefit. Later, en route to Hollywood, she inflicts her version of Gunga Din on the passengers of a transcontinental train. Encouraged by a too-ambitious mother (Margaret Irving), her brattishness persists until a gentle Mexican (Leo Carrillo) brings out the latent good in her. Best performance: Mr. Carrillo's dependable spick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...none could deny that this drama of a patrician banished from Rome for not truckling to the plebs, and joining with his former enemies to wreck his own country, builds up in massive blocks of action. And none could deny that at least once-when the hero's mother comes to plead with him to spare his native Rome-the drama unfolds an intensely human scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Billboard posters (2,000) went up all over the country, showing a happy couple playing with their healthy baby, and urging: "Safeguard Baby's Right to Be Born Healthy. Every expectant mother should go early to a physician for an examination and blood tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Safeguard Baby | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...pickaback plane, or "Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft," consists of two seaplanes-a small, swift, long-range ship securely locked on the back of a big short-range "mother" flying boat. The top plane, named Mercury, has a 73-ft. wing span, weighs 20,000 lb. loaded, is powered with four air-cooled 16-cyl. Napier-Half ord 340-h.p. engines, carries a total payload of 1,000 lb. (but no passengers) 3,500 mi. at 160 m.p.h. Its mother beneath, Maia, weighs 40,000 lb. loaded, has four big 9-cyl., 960-h.p. Bristol "Pegasus" radial engines, a wing span...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Air Papoose | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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