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Word: referse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME (Nov. 27, p. 56) refers to a coin-operated phonograph as a "juke box." Since Gainesville is - if not the birthplace - at least the incubator and nursery for the term, I feel a more-or-less fatherly interest in it and ask that you conform to our usage in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

That Anderson is often concerned with deeply serious ideas, and has had the guts to take the hard way in the theatre, is beyond dispute. But the sound playwright who long ago wrote What Price Glory? and Saturday's Children has gradually given way to a fuzzy cosmos-gazer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

*Not to be confused with the Institute of Pacific Relations, an international, genuinely liberal research organization with headquarters in Manhattan. Its Pacific refers to both peace and the Ocean.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Dutch Tweak | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

A favorite phrase among Italian Fascisti is "changing of the guard." It refers to a supposedly fixed policy of rotating the Party's big men in the State's big jobs; actually it is usually used to make crucial political shifts seem casual and routine. Last week, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Changes | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

"Pulse" is a flippant, Time-influenced publication which refers to Chicago's President as "Prexy Bob Hutchins" and runs plotter captions such as "Milton Mayer: twitchy tempted" and "Dean Gilkey...good gingerbread.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Is Severely Criticized by Article in U. of Chicago Publication | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

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