Search Details

Word: nones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

From the beach, factory executives in shirt sleeves, mechanics in overalls watched the new 52-passenger ship as she swung out past Point Loma. Among them, none watched more intently than Engineer David Richard Davis, because none had a bigger stake in her than he. For David Davis had designed her slim no-foot wing, had calculated on the drawing board and in the wind tunnel that it was close to perfection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Perfect Wing | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...celebrate a successful football season, and broke his training by gorging himself on pop, ice cream, and hot dogs. Within five days, in spite of his well-developed physique, he had three epileptic seizures. A return to his low-water diet ended his attacks, and he has had none since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Exercise Cure | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...twin puts $30,000 into International Harvester at 30, it rises to 60, and he keeps it. Each started with the same amount in cash, each ended with 1,000 shares of International Harvester, but according to accounting practice, one had $30,000 profit and the other none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACCOUNTING: After McKesson's | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...their outside record of three victories against four defeats is none too impressive, it should be noted that they had to battle their way through a torrid schedule of five outside matches in nine days against the strongest teams in the East and the last time they lost they pressed North Carolina to the limit before succumbing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

...jumped to the conclusion that the Freshman petition on the method of House room allotments was nothing but a campaign on the part of eleven men to gain admission to Houses for some of their personal acquaintances. But this petition appears to us to be definitely altruistic; certainly none of the committee sponsoring it could believe their complaint would result in any revision of the already completed House assignments. We believe this petition was formed after considerable thought to aid future Freshmen who are willing to work hard in attempting to assure for themselves a room in a House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | Next