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Word: pense (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's teachers tried desperate devices to keep the évacués out of mischief. They staged boxing and wrestling matches, started all sorts of games. Nevertheless, bored, homesick city toughies formed gangs, roved the countryside, beat up village children, threw stones at policemen, let pigs out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to London | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Now Buzz Hoover uses 23¼ of KFKA's 88 hours a week. He built KFKA a new transmitter, which the now booming station has nearly paid for. In Hoover Park, around his auction arena, he has his own studio, the 300-foot transmitter tower outlined with red neon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prairie Showman | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

"Gentlemen, this examination will end promptly in twenty minutes." Pens scratch paper desperately. The Mem Hall clock tolls the death-knell,--twelve o'clock noon. Fifteen more minutes; then ten; then five. People are handing in their blue books, strolling out the door. Vag scrawls the last word in his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

No trumpets sounded a change as 55 P. E. N. delegates from 29 countries forgathered at the New York World's Fair last fortnight to hold their three-day World Congress of Writers. Quietly and peaceably the writers filed into the egg-shaped, modernistic Hall of Music. But once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men of Good Will | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

One of the by-products of the Wartime boom in the chemical industry was the development of non-inflammable plastics. Until then the plastic business's chief claim to fame was the familiar, fire-hazardous celluloid collar. Since then the world has become accustomed to plastic toothbrushes and fountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Plastic Prospects | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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