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Word: reasonsable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Briskly into New York harbor from Rotterdam one shiny morning last week rode the new, 10,704-ton Holland-America Line motorship Noordam, with a holdful of reasons why her maiden voyage should be considered an important item of marine intelligence. Second unit of a new Holland-America fleet,* she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: New Dutchman | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

When a Londoner uses the word "Prom" he refers not to a college dance but to an extraordinarily popular series of concerts given every autumn at London's ugly old Queen's Hall. Unlike Covent Garden concerts, the Promenade series are not fashionable. Main reasons for the concerts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jubilee | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Splitting the light from a star or other celestial object into the bands and lines of a spectrum gives astronomers clues about how hot the body is, whether it is advancing or retreating, whether it is spinning, whether it is dense or thin, what it is made of. Unfortunately, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Image-Slicer | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Ignoring this argument and the obvious fact that if an issue becomes sticky and causes a loss to Union Securities Corp. the loss will inevitably be passed on to its investment trust backers, Tri-Continental and Selected Industries last week preferred to lay their new venture to two lesser reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: New Tri | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

More than any other writer of his rank, Ernest Hemingway tells his stories by means of pungent, unexpected, abbreviated dialogue. Characters are revealed in sharp, blind, tormented speeches which break through commonplace talk. In some of Hemingway's stories, notably Fifty Grand and The Killers, so much of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dramatist of Violence | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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