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Word: overent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, in the great white Bloomsbury building which the Ministry took over from the University of London, the Censorship Department went to work under a new head: Sir Walter Monckton, 48, onetime legal adviser to King Edward VIII. Each Government department now issues its own news as it did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 999 to 849 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Like most of his confreres, Cowboy Carney rodeos ten months of the year, travels by auto, likes pool & poker, spends his two months' vacation "foolin' round," seldom wears "civvies," is "scared of bulls" (in spite of the fact that steer riding is his specialty), earns about $6,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Career Cowboys | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Over slivers of goose liver at Horcher's in Berlin, Publisher Conde Nast told Vogue's Editor Edna Woolman Chase and Vanity Fair's Editor Frank Crowninshield that he had just found the ideal art director for his U. S. string of swank magazines. The latest candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young Turk | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

High over the silver Hudson, in uptown Manhattan, stands a giant's village of towering, cream-brick buildings: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.* Most extraordinary of the hospitals in this doctors' Mecca is the 14-story Neurological Institute, erected ten years ago through the heroic efforts of late, great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

He came to no workaday hospital, devoted to textbook treatment of disease, but to a great temple of experiment, where even sober trustees are fired by the high task of ending body's tyranny over mind, To 45-year-old Dr. Putnam, as to the other bold, competent physicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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