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Word: reasonsable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traveling in South Dakota, President Roosevelt last week received the resignation of Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde as U. S. Minister to Denmark, accepted it "reluctantly." Mrs. Rohde's reasons for quitting: "To take an active part in the campaign for your re-election." Impressed were observers by the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mrs. Rohde's Reasons | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Last week platinum sold in the U. S. at $62 an oz. Week before it sold at $53. Week before that it sold at $43. In almost any other commodity such bouncing behavior would have to be explained by good reasons. In platinum it was not explained, for platinum is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Platinum Boom | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

U. S. wrestlers are vaguely divided into regional groups. Each group recognizes as world champion its own champion who, for box-office reasons, usually prefers not to wrestle rival champions. Currently, there are six claimants to the title besides Levin: Rudy Dusek, Danno O'Mahoney, Everett Marshall. Leo Daniel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wrestlers' Unrest | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

For meteorological and commercial reasons, when summer ends, the radio season begins. Some broadcast sponsors think programs may be spoiled by summer static; others believe listeners are cool when the weather is warm. By last week, however, practically every solvent producer of consumer goods in the U. S., cheered by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Free Show | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Both poets turned to prose at about the same period, Sandburg writing his colloquial children's tales, Rootabaga Stories, Masters his cycle of thesis novels. Both wrote biographies of Lincoln, Sandburg picturing him as the greatest U. S. hero, Masters seeing him as the wrecker of the Union. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets & People | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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