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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profit their company netted during its last fiscal year came from Dick Powell musicals, crime stories opportunely snatched from newspaper headlines, feathery comedies. With recent earnings over a million dollars less than those of the first six months of the last fiscal year, Warners have decided on a return to the brisk action film of the G-Man and public-enemy cycle that pulled them out of their last slump. For such a return, James Cagney, now back on their payroll, seems to be just the ticket. The Warners also plan Hell's Kitchen, with the Dead End boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prospectus | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...search of quick return best method is for each student to leave in his blue-book an addressed postcard, which the instructor in the course can fill our and send to him as soon as the grade is determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADE SEEKERS AVOID UNIVERSITY'S OFFICES! | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

PRINCETON, FLA.--G-Mon tonight pinned their hopes for early solution of the kidnaping of five-year-old Jimmy Cash on appearance of bills in the $10,000 ransom paid by James Cash, Sr., for return of his only...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...final league spurt, the Dartmouth Indians trounced Columbia Wednesday and with eight wins against three defeats have become real threats to the Crimson championship hopes. Harvard now must beat Dartmouth in a return engagement Saturday, June 18, and take at least one game from Yale to cinch the title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRUSADERS BRING CRACK NINE HERE, BATTLE TOMORROW | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

...other U. S. Sargassoan social incongruities. Put simply, says Adamic, "there is entirely too much snarling and snorting." It was this discovery that determined Adamic to steer clear of all political entanglements, all fighting provocations. Threatened, for example, by violent fellow-Balkans who objected to The Native's Return, Adamic merely moved to the 24th floor of a Manhattan hotel until they cooled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sargasso Seasickness | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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