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Word: outdoor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dillingham will ride in the number two spot. The tall Sophomore from Hawaii carries a two-goal outdoor rating, is worth even more according to Sargent. The third berth is at present a toss-up between Warwick Stabler, 240-pounder who has filled the number one position in previous games, and Ben Forbes, recent addition to the squad who may make his Varsity debut against Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

...compared with ten million other U. S. farmers, they are not plain. While milking the cows, Farmer Smart sings Gregorian chants. Their outdoor privy, built last year by the WPA, is decorated with colored reproductions of Toulouse-Lautrec, Laurencin, Chirico. Winters, the Smarts produce plays in Chillicothe's Little Theatre. Farmer Smart believes that the land should be socialized. His farm deficit he makes up by clipping coupons ("much less pleasant than shoveling dung"). But in common with plain farmers he wants to make his farm pay by the sweat of his own brow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Specialty Farmer | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Board of Health president, in his City Hall office, asked his help in combatting double features. "We feel.'' said their spokesman, "that they are detrimental to the health of our children, due to the many hours spent inside the theatre, depriving them of their rightful amount of outdoor exercise and rest, and resulting in fatigue, eyestrain and overwrought nerves. . . . Two-and-a-half hours is long enough for any child to remain in a movie." When the delegation left, they had assurance that just such an ordinance as they desired was under consideration. Last week, with the wordy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...along with the Compsons, the Sutpens, the Coldfields, and their slaves, overseers and illegitimate children, make up much of Jefferson's past and present population. The stories are full of action and there are few of the involved Proustian passages that made Absalom, Absalom! almost unreadable. Instead, its outdoor scenes of fights with Yankees and highwaymen, its pictures of the transformation of well-bred Southern boys to horse thieves and killers, gives The Unvanquished something of the air of Two Little Confederates as it might be rewritten by an author aware of the race problem, economics and Freudian psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Town a-Building | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...Radio Today, Outdoor Advertising, Inc., Publishers' Information Bureau, Editor & Pub Usher and Printers' Ink. *Eight in order: Saturday Evening Post, Col lier's, American Weekly, Good Housekeeping, TIME, LIFE, Woman's Home Companion, Ladies' Home Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Time & Space | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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