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Word: reade (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bedroom sessions about sex and himself. But when it comes to considering or taking a stand on those political issues which are hid very life hi is namby-pamby and lackadaisical. Europe is trotting merrily to hell, but there is hardly a student in Harvard who does nit read the headlines with merely idle curiosity or regard the eventuality of war with complete fatalism. Any burr under the saddle, in the form of a succession of conferences, is desirable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO CAMELOT WE GO | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...TIME'S $215 figure should have read $125. Matson Line minimum one-way fare to Honolulu: $125; Canadian Pacific (out of Vancouver): $115 on small boats, $125 on Empress of Japan; American President Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Production schedules for this spring and summer read like headings in an encyclopedia. Every major studio has at least one biography already in production, more on the production line. Under way are Young Mr. Lincoln, Stanley and Livingstone, Beethoven, Man of Conquest (Sam Houston), Man in the Iron Mask, Juarez, Brigham Young, Knute Rockne. Promised for next season are Mme Curie, Thomas Edison, Rudolph Valentino, Steinmetz, Lillian Russell, Simon Bolivar, Nobel. Last week the first spring shoot of this bumper crop appeared on U. S. screens. The biggest job to date of Hollywood's sole socialite director, Henry Codman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dancing Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...editions later the Tribune changed its mind, eliminated from its editorial the promise to junk simplified spelling, altered its headline to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hemloc Canceled | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...West Hoboken, N. J., handsome Pietro di Donato was 14 when his father was killed in a construction accident, leaving a widow and eight children. Pietro, a "bricklayer in diapers," took up his father's bricklaying trowel, has supported his family ever since. In his off-hours he read everything in sight, especially Russian novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bricklayer | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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