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Word: notted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convoys can go no faster than their slowest members. Mr. Churchill said that the system has now been speeded by instituting "slow" and "fast" convoys, so that wallowing tramps do not hold up the parade.* He pointed out that while losses of British merchant shipping declined in October to half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Churchill v. Chain Belt | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Frick & Frack do not depend on costumes, grimaces or falls to get their laughs. With the pantomime of Charlie Chaplin and the rubber legs of Leon Errol, they take the elements of figure skating, distort them into crazy positions to create some of the most astonishing feats ever performed on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Ice | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Says Frick, the stolid one: "People think our skating is eccentric. It is not so. Any figure skater should be able to do a serious Spread Eagle asleep. It becomes comedy when you do odd things with your body while the Spread Eagle is going on. We use our brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Ice | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

One of England's greatest cathedrals is Ely, a Norman-to-perpendicular pile which stands on an eminence commanding the fen country of Cambridgeshire. Named for the eels abounding in its waters, eely Ely is a market town of only 8,000-odd inhabitants. Its fairs, held on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop's Furrow | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Author of these plays, written for radio and church performance, and acted last week on the platform in a church in Boulder, Colo., was a masterful, mannish-voiced gynotheocrat, Bishop Alma White, 77. Once a Methodist, wife of a preacher, Mrs. White read herself out of her church because it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop v. Drink | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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