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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with nothing to fly by but a compass, a bit of a map and the beam in his eye, 31-year-old Douglas P. Corrigan of Los Angeles had flown the 2,700 miles to New York nonstop. A vacation trip, he said, and a fairly pleasant one, from his job at the Northrop Corp. aircraft works at Inglewood, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Stunt | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...promising, and to some extent producing visible results here & now; 2) spreading doctrines which seem more plausible more understandable, than those of the established churches. A cult which has done well on this broad basis is one known simply as Unity. One of its high priestesses, a well-dressed, pleasant-faced woman named Mrs. Georgiana Tree West announced last week in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that she had incorporated a new Unity Center in that city, was hunting a permanent location for it. Said Mrs. West: "There is a new religious era, and it is being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unity | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...olive brown troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Rightist Army drove on through the vineyards, the fruit and palm trees of Spain's Levant last week. Edging down the Mediterranean coast a few miles a day, they camped each night a little nearer Valencia. Capturing the once pleasant and prosperous resort of Nules and the little town of Villavieja, two miles inland, as the week ended the Rightist Galician troops commanded by General Miguel Aranda were within ten miles of Sagunto, 25 miles of Valencia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: On to Valencia | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Milan villagers. It will give employment eventually to some 30 more. They will spend their spare time on their farms growing their own food. They will work with cheap water power and they are expected to work more quickly, more efficiently, with less supervision, in the small community with pleasant surroundings. The United Automobile Workers may have a hard time getting at them there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hobby Factory | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...Goldberg had introduced her. An Irish boy fell in love with her, carried her off to Ireland to live with his parents until she could make up her mind to marry him. Julie loved him too, loved Ireland, tried to disinfect her speech and thoughts to conform with a pleasant, proper environment. But when the showdown came she streaked back to London to meet a chastened, honest Goldberg on his release, realized that only when she was with him was she in the thick of things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Convict's Girl | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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