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Word: revealers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter from a lady asking him to explain Socialism, he wrote a 200,000-word reply entitled The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. Who it was who asked Dorothy Thompson to write Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide, published this week, the author does not reveal. Miss Thompson, who calls her book "the intelligent Woman's Guide to Isms," approaches the fulminating Fabian in garrulousness and dogmatism, but falls far behind in endurance-her book is only twice as long as Shaw's table of contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Passionate Pundit | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Export-Import President Pierson, a 40-year-old California lawyer with a sense of humor and a vast love of travel, was pleased to reveal that he had agreed to discount notes of the Haitian Government for $5,000,000 worth of public works to be handled by J. G. White Engineering Corp., that he was discussing a substantial order of railroad equipment for Brazil, that the door was open to South American nations in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Open Door | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Sirs : At a large gathering here a friend said he was sure the Hughes flight proved something -just what it was he thought the Editor of TIME might reveal. Will you tell me who put up the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...turns out mystery stories as a side line. Example: Economist George Douglas Howard Cole, who has collaborated with his wife on a successful half dozen. Poet Lewis' mysteries, however, are noteworthy because he meets professional mystery writers on their own ground with only an occasional literary elegance to reveal its author's other talents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Mystery | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...tobaccos are mixed, sprayed with a special flavoring formula which gives each brand its own particular taste. Since taste is a big selling point, each brand's flavoring mixture is a trade secret, but the basis for all flavoring is rum. Only other ingredient cigaret companies reveal is a hygroscopic agent mixed with the tobacco to attract moisture. In most cigarets the hygroscopic agent is glycerin; Philip Morris uses diethylene glycol. The result, it claims, with substantiation from many a doctor, is less irritation to the membranes of the throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Fourth | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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