Word: readings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...amazed that there are 500 followers of "Silo Charlie" [TIME, Feb. 13] with sufficient intellect to read and understand TIME...
...arranges her by Michael P. Grace '40 of the Independents. The sand, which filled one of Sullivan's trucks, was intended to symbolize the victory which the Jews had won over the desert in the construction of Tel Aviv. On the sides of the truck were fastened placards which read "Up From the Desert" and "Now From the Wastelands." It was parked opposite the hotel during the dance...
...enthusiasts who think a voyage to the moon by rocket-ship could be undertaken right away, if the necessary funds (about $1,250,000) were forthcoming. U. S. rocketeers, a more conservative crowd than their fellow dreamers across the sea, had their hair raised last week when they read, in the latest B. I. S. Journal, an article entitled "The Payload on the Lunar Trip." This juicily detailed the equipment to be taken on the first lunar voyage, sounded as though the takeoff were scheduled for next week. Excerpts...
...Brien Entertains (by Harry Madden; produced by George Abbott) but she is not very entertaining. Snooting the century-ago Irish immigrants who fill her house, and sneering at all foreigners who are non-Irish, she is finally read a lecture on Americanism and the melting pot, quickly mends her ways. The play is well-meaning, noisy, false: the Maggie and Jiggs set transferred from comic strip to stage...
Lincoln Talks consists of some 800 anecdotes lifted from correspondence, newspapers, biographies, books of jokes, gossip, legend. Any Lincoln story is fun to read, and since Editor Hertz frankly tried to collect all the stories rather than all the true stories, this anthology makes particularly easy reading. Its Lincoln is lovable, immensely humorous, quick as an eagle, wise as an owl, gentle as a dove. For the rest, the book adds to the bulk if not to the substance of the honest truth about Honest...