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Word: propsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace has never had the proper kind of publicity. It hasn't lent itself to the copy-starved portables of reporters with the same excitement which war can marshal. It is essentially a tranquil, home-loving, field and stream, house and garden sort of condition. It has never had such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holiday | 1/25/1933 | See Source »

In 1926 Mexico broke off diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, had not resumed them up to last week, partly because of Mexican suspicions that the Nicaraguan Government has been a set-up propped by U. S. Marines. Now that the props are gone, Mexico, according to El National, may soon find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Big Stick | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

The story itself, about a country boy (Eric Linden) who comes to New York to set the town on fire and goes home with scorched fingers, might have been much better handled. Ward Morehouse, who wrote it, is a theatrical reporter who knows more about how theatrical people talk than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 19, 1932 | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

When the late Charles William Eliot resigned the presidency of Harvard in 1909, Harvard stood for Philosophy. Death, desertion and desuetude soon left President Abbott Lawrence Lowell little to boast about in that department. During subsequent periods Harvard has stood for Literature, Freshman Dormitories, Astronomy, House Plan, according to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Harvard | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

This being Holy Week and Boston being Boston, there is at present only one legitimate theatre in town that is not dark. That is the Copley; which offers the most typical mystery play this reviewer remembers having seen. All the props that one usually connects with a mystery are brought...

Author: By O. W. Jr., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/23/1932 | See Source »

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