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Word: reasonsable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The passage illustrates Mr. Caldwell's peculiar virtuosity. The incongruity between the horrible matter and the prattling manner results in a slightly ludicrous effect which is deliberately aimed at. This is ingenious, but is scarcely makes the book all that its dust jacket says that it is. The book will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

With these and more unprintable comments, George Herman Ruth last week resigned from the Boston Braves with whom he signed a contract last February to perform as baseball player, assistant manager and vice president. His reasons: personal differences with the Braves' president, Judge Emil Fuchs, climaxed by Judge Fuchs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ruth Out | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

In Russia's geographic position Author Chamberlin finds the first reasons for the inflexibility of the Tsarist government and the desperation of the revolutionary upheaval. Poised between Europe and Asia, serving for centuries as a barrier between European civilization and Asiatic barbarism, Russia drew her ideas of Western progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impersonal History | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

By the "fundamental machinery" we mean the manner of faculty appointment and promotion, which is probably the very heart of the success of an educational institution. For many decades Yale has been almost unique in the country in giving the power to appoint and promote almost exclusively to the body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/5/1935 | See Source »

Same day at Southampton another group of people boarded another ship, which in her day had also been a Queen of the Seas. As they gathered round a long table under the dome of the main lounge, they were anything but gay. Most of them were solemn-faced businessmen in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sentiment for Sale | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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