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Word: returning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British-French note in which these Great Powers were understood to propose that, in exchange firstly for granting Italy "full parity" with themselves to patrol the Mediterranean against pirates (TIME, Oct. 4), and secondly for extending "conditional belligerent rights" to Spain's Rightists and Leftists, Italy in return should agree to a scheme of withdrawing all volunteers now fighting in Spain. Neither Rome, Paris nor Britain seemed likely to take an adamant position in the tri-power negotiations now under way on Spain, and prospects were for groping toward a compromise. General Attilio Teruzzi. staff commander of Italian volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: $1,000,000 Bid | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...Morning World-Herald and all six of the Evening World-Herald. Now the World-Herald will have two separate staffs, will duplicate no items in the morning and evening editions. After the manner of the Des Moines Register & Tribune which has eyed the Omaha field and been envied in return by Publisher Doorly, the World-Herald will carry every important news service, the cream of specialized features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Omaha Monopoly | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...Columbia Pictures, pennywise Hollywood, licking the wounds of its 16-month battle with the Dramatists' Guild, started its penitent return to Broadway playbacking last week. This move marked the end of a period that had forced up screen prices for stage hits to astronomical levels ($200,000 for You Can't Take It With You, $255,000 for Room Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Back to Broadway | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...least as much claim: upon ''things unseen" as the ghostly Dutchmen for last season's High Tor, but observers, who found his last four plays marred by turgid dialog and prose which often bore only the typographical mask of verse, welcomed Playwright Anderson's return to colloquial speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...might not bring more happiness, they might bring less. To prove both points the play provides some metaphysical speeches and a time-machine. Stephen Minch (Burgess Meredith), inventor who has made a fortune for his employer, has reached his peak with the invention of a "star-wagon" which will return its driver to any desired point in the past. Nagged by his wife Martha (Lillian Gish) for his resigned poverty and fired by his employer, the inventor throws the switch of the star-wagon, and is instantly transported to the year 1902, when he met and married Martha. Resolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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