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Word: parte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...qualified flyers. If novices are to be taught, a professional instructor should be hired. He could also supervise the maintenance of the planes. That is the Canadian and British system. Such an instructor-manager might be a commercial pilot operating in the neighborhood and working for the club only part time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying Clubs | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...rumored transaction was interpreted as an alliance between U. S. Industrial Alcohol and du Pont, though the du Pont part in the proceedings appeared entirely passive. It is said that the alcohol company has developed a new cellulose acetate process which may be used in the making of du Pont rayon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: U. S. Industrial & du Pont | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...portrait was intended to be of herself. She sued for $200,000 libel. Harper & Bros., publishers of the novel, moved that Mrs. Lewisohn's complaint be dismissed. Last week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted and disappointed conceit against an individual in particular and society and law generally, and cannot seriously affect the opinion of rational individuals, yet since the words are patently libellous per se, and obviously refer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Paris, a Mile. Louise Monpeil bade goodbye to friends, drank a "death cocktail" concocted as follows: two parts ink, one part corn remover fluid, two parts industrial alcohol, an olive. The friends gave her an emetic, reproved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Hero, or a telegram from him, just in time. The Heroine does not leap to her death. Everything ends happily-in the movies. Now that the "talkies" have come, you can actually hear that situation-saving knock on the door. And nowadays the organ music or the orchestration is part of the film, so that the "emoting" of cinema's musical accompaniments is more exactly timed and appropriate than ever. Now that the talkies have come, more than 35,000 musicians who used to play in theatres are out of their jobs (TIME, May 27 et seq.). The orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Difference | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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