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Word: remaines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfect mannequin's figure, the face of a pleasant elf, meticulousness, good taste, brains, and that French sauce of spirit that explains why Paris can remain, even in wartime, the world's style centre -these qualities combine to make Eve Curie, the 35-year-old daughter and biographer of Madame Marie Sklodovska Curie, a woman whose changes of dress or hairdo sometimes swing whole fashions. Last week Eve Curie wrote in Vogue about what happens to fashions in the face of tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hatless Heroism | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...celebrate its second birthday, Pins and Needles rigged up virtually a new revue. Only three of the original numbers remain. The new show cannot, from the fame of the old one, provide the same kind of exciting surprise. But on its merits it is a much better show. It is better put together, better paced, better performed. It has four or five downright bad numbers, but no longer any heavy and humorless ones, and it has ceased to be amateurish while remaining fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...execution of the book is not flawless; Sandburg's method of filing and attacking his material by subject as well as by chronological batches seems to have caused a few unconscious repetitions. A few-but very few-allusions will remain unclear to readers who are not students of the period. There is at times a certain bleakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...long as the plans for broader fields of concentration remain in the embryonic stage, a satisfactory solution is difficult. It is rather too much to hope that sufficiently versatile tutors can be found to shoulder the burden of correlation in History-Government-Economies, much as they would be appreciated. Therefore, the best plan would be for the division to require a short thesis of all its concentrators in the spring of Junior year on any topic which combines their field of concentration with another, whether inside the actual division or not. This freedom is important, frequently government might be combined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRELATION CONFUSION | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

...course in Aeronautical Engineering, which was begun this year, is open to all University men except Freshmen and those who are unable to pass the physical examination. Of the 200 applicants for the course only 75 still remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First of Over 70 Students Take to Air As Government Flying Lessons Begin | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

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