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Word: reasonsable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, when the earthquake-which cine-maddicts with sensitive eardrums have been anticipating nervously ever since the establishment of the story's time and place -finally begins to rattle, it is almost an anticlimax. Unlike the same phenomenon in San Francisco, it inflicts no more than a few severe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Readers who penetrate its obscurities, however, find that Mr. Richards makes shrewd sense. Aiming to teach students to think by a logical examination of the meaning of words, he proposes that rhetoric, grammar and logic be restored to the modern school curriculum. But he would teach these subjects in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Love & Motor Car | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

With outraged vehemence, Secretary of War Harry Woodring retorted that Major Generall Moseley "was disappointed in his ambition to become Chief of Staff. . . . As to the reasons why General [Malin] Craig was preferred for the important post, I do not think anyone needs to look farther than to read General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Moseley's Day Off | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Although the years 1915-36 showed a steady increase in the number of iodine drinkers, said Dr. Moore, not one fatal case of iodine poisoning was observed in Boston and vicinity. Reasons: 1) Iodine cannot be absorbed by the body without chemical change. It combines with fatty acids, proteins, starches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Iodine Suicides | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

When rayon appeared it was at first hoped that it would completely replace silk as raw material. It never did because, among other reasons, it lacked silk's elasticity (a rayon stocking, for example, wrinkles instead of clinging to the knee and sharp-eyed women maintained they could tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXTILES: No. 2,130,948 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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