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Word: reasonsable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even without this revealing hint of what the Roosevelts talk about at table, last week's conference would have been newsworthy. It brought out 1) that Eleanor Roosevelt intends to be inveigled into no wasp-waist corsets this fall; 2) that the delicate White House problem of arranging diplomatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sons and War | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Busy people drop in at country-clubs, bridge-teas or corner saloons in hope of finding relaxation and entertainment. When busy men and women pick up general magazines they do so for much the same reasons. Editors of these magazines try to sell the public their own private blend of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Food for Light Thought | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

There are at least two good reasons why students should welcome formation of the resoundingly titled "Committee to Save Education at Harvard". First, it shows an immediate awareness by students that the recent abolition of the middle rank of teachers directly affects them. Second, it is the nucleus of a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCERN FOR A CAUSE | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

Hooton 's view of modern Germany: "[Germany] repeatedly threatens the ruin of Western civilization, because this nation is composed of organic blends which, for some unknown genetic reasons, combine marvelous understanding of mechanical techniques with utter obtusity in human relations, and which are of a suggestibility so extreme that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Raucous Crying | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

The biggest danger of tight bottlenecks is that the bottle may explode. The necessity of using obsolete equipment raises costs, prices begin to pyramid, and panicked customers overbuy. The result is often an inventory depression. Example: 1937. For this among other reasons many a businessman last week had his fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bottlenecks | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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