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Long before a reader has finished the book he realizes that The Years is well named. It is not so much the story of a particular family as it is the story of how time passes-or seems to pass; recurs-or seems to recur. In Virginia Woolf's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Time Passes | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

If it is true that the devil finds work for idle hands to do, the No. i U. S. Mephistopheles is currently a mild little Philadelphian named Charles Darrow. Mr. Darrow's claim to the title, based on Monopoly, U. S. parlor craze of 1936, was last week reinforced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 1937 Games | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

That the theme of news-pigeons in Rothschild, the semaphore in Lloyd's-recurs in Producer Darryl Zanuck's major works is not entirely accidental. Famed for his knack of translating headlines into cinema, Zanuck sees history as a collection of front-page stories. Making insurance seem glamorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

In the replies of several Freshmen is the recent CRIMSON questionnaire, is the suggestion that the breakfast hour at the Union be extended from eighty-thirty to nine o'clock. While the point is by no means new, it recurs with sufficient regularity to justify renewed discussion.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREAKFAST AT THE UNION | 3/23/1935 | See Source »

Insurance v. Reserves- The European plan is based on the assumption that unemployment is an insurable risk, like death, fire and accident, which over a long range recurs with mathematical precision. The American plan advocates argue that there is no such mathematical certainty about unemployment, that it cannot, properly speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SERVICES: Breaking Soil | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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