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Word: reveals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much-needed recruits for the British Army. the ugly duckling of Britain's fighting services. With the sort of interest shown in a popular cricketer, Britishers-from black-coated civil servants in Whitehall to roisterous cockneys on Hampstead Heath -waited last week for War Secretary Hore-Belisha to reveal his program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ugly Duckling | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...Indianapolis, Police Captain Lewis Johnson announced the results of municipal research intended to reveal the most efficient speed for expediting traffic. Answer: 23.5 m.p.h. Said Captain Johnson: "At that speed the safe distance between cars is 33 ft. and 2,600 cars can be moved past a given point within an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Automobiles | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Next day Mr. Broun replied: "On the extraneous subject of Communism, I might reveal the fact that several years ago I promised my wife, Constantina Maria Incoronata Fruscella, that I would never join the Communist party unless I joined the Catholic Church within the same week. I imagine that probably I will not ever be admitted to either." Mr. Broun said the main objective of the Guild is to stay in the C. I. O., added that "Mr. Green is the greatest single obstacle in the path of the labor movement. . . . The stone must be rolled away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guild Referendum | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...bright group of the Pleiades, near the celestial figure of amorous Orion, has been a source of wonder and speculation to shepherds and seers since the dawn of history. Telescopes reveal thousands of stars in the cluster, moving away from Earth at six miles per second (present distance: nearly two quadrillion miles). To Babylonians the naked eye stars were ''The Many Little Ones," to American Indians "The Seven Brothers." In some folklore they are called "The Seven Who Now Are Six.'' as though an ancient memory persisted that the dim star, which can be seen only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dim Pleiad | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...Yorker did not reveal: that the "group of animal lovers" was one Marcia O'Day, attractive little 28-year-old brunette; that the Mouse Beautiful started as a joke among her friends; that Miss O'Day does not breed mice but buys them from a pet shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Mice Beautiful | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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