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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale game upsets are a thing of the past, and now the CRIMSON seer can turn to more pleasant duties. Selecting All-Star elevens is lots of fun and there never is any proof that you were absolutely wrong. But here's a last batch of games and scores before the next football season opens about forty weeks from now. Boston College will reign supreme in New England tonight, paced by the stoutest line in the East. Navy 7 Army 0 Boston College 13 Holy Cross 7 Stanford 14 Dartmouth 7 Duquesne 13 Detroit 7 Fordham 20 N.Y.U. 7 Georgia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Scores | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

...decreased, the senses are dulled, so that bodily changes which would normally cause pain are not felt. Above altitudes of 12,000 feet, a man who does not take oxygen will become sleepy and depressed, or hilarious and pugnacious. At 25,000 feet, he may droop into a pleasant, possibly fatal coma. A pilot flying at 15,000 to 18,000 feet for four or five hours may feel well enough to ignore his cumbersome oxygen mask. But when he lands he may collapse with violent headache, dizziness, nausea, muscular weakness, mental confusion. Chronic altitude sickness may ground a flier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Air Disease | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...daring could ever make them. "What the adult American female chiefly asks of the movies is the opportunity to escape by reverie from an existence which she finds insufficiently interesting. . . . She sees the quickest release... in dreaming of an existence which is rich, romantic, glamorous. But dreaming, though a pleasant occupation, is not altogether easy. . . . The making of a really good reverie demands considerable effort of energy and imagination. How," asks the author, ''can the American woman who buys her bread sliced and her peas shelled be expected to concoct her own reveries?" The best parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Brunswick-The Marionette Room-tempo is a little faster than some of the other hotel rooms, but still much fun. Dancing is okeh. . . Hotel Lenox-the Blue Train. I have fond memories of the Blue Train after an especially noisy evening. Soft lights and similar stuff made it very pleasant, with good music as an added factor. Recommended as an oasis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...natural expansion in this part of the world." Ambassador Grew rose, said he was terribly sorry that because of his deafness he had missed parts of the Viscount's speech, but had taken notes on what he had been able to hear. Consulting them, he gave a pleasant little talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Straight from the Mouth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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