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Word: overlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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1) That Peary, a man of 53, by no means rugged, minus several toes lost on a previous expedition, could not possibly have sledged 150 airline miles in 56 hours over rough pack ice; that Cook did not claim much more than 15 miles a day.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Belmont Park has long been the prettiest and toniest race track in the U. S. Its wide-sweeping racing strip (only 1½-mile track in the U. S.), its picturesque steeplechase course in the infield, its straightaway course (Widener Chute) for wobbly-legged two-year-olds unaccustomed to maneuvering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Deal | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

A gloomy autocrat, Bodanzky drove every performance he conducted with a tight rein, lashed world-famed tenors and sopranos at rehearsals with a hot tongue ("Who told you you could sing?"). When he was feeling impatient he would sometimes drag a performance over the jumps as if he were rushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wagnerian Conductor | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

At week's end Dr. Greene had encouraging answers from 20 broadcasters, was already girding for another scrap-against double talk (idioglossia).* Says he: "If a comedian has to try to put his stuff over by making a fool of our good English, then let him not stay in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Villainy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Miss Campbell thinks that she has been in this school too long, would like to go on to a bigger one. Next year she plans to take Saturday courses at the University of Iowa. Her teaching salary now is $72.50 a month (she began at $40). Her restaurant job helps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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