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Word: namee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, let us deny that "Novelist Williamson's" first name is pronounced as you have said. Thames is pronounces with a "th" sound, as one syllable, and to rime with James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Dada Movement was founded in the Cafe Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916 by a group of five literati; two Germans, two Rumanians and an Alsatian. The word, Dada (which is apparently a child's name for a hobby horse) was first applied by this group to one of the female singers in derision, and afterwards to a movement that derided the contemporary arts. Later the centre of the movement was shifted by Tristan Tzara, one of the founders, to Paris where it became united with a French movement of a somewhat similar nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

After the reception the boys inspected the laboratories, soon recovered from the self-consciousness that had resulted from batteries of cameras and prying reporters anxious to gather material on the sayings and actions of assembled geniuses. As each wore a large identification tag bearing the name of his state, they soon found this an easier means of appellation than remembering proper names. "Oregon" compared notes with "Maryland"; "New Jersey" told "Kansas" about Manhattan, for "New York" himself was from Utica, had never seen New York City. Soon they decided to form a club, "The Edison 49ers," to meet every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...What three very low forms of life can you name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Name the use of the following: Gal vanometer, vernier, oscillograph, pantograph, micrometer, pyrometer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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