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Word: ring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed. Comatose spectators booed, clapped for action. Once Genaro, swinging a right, missed and fell down. It was the only down of the fight. When it was over one judge voted for Wolgast, one for Genaro; the referee called it a draw. Lustily reviled, the two champions left the ring, still champions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champion v. Champion | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

Companion Essex Super-Six has more comfortable upholstery, slightly changed body lines, and a new high-compression motor equipped with three-jet carburetor, an oil-saving piston ring, other power-producing features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Crucial Motors | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...RING OF THE LÖWENSKÖLDS- Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced "Lahgerlef") has a broad, Scandinavian face with a broad thin mouth that is so straight it looks as if it turned down a little at the corners. She wears her grey hair piled up in a plain, old-fashioned pompadour. Her eyes are steely, steady. A little dimple in her left cheek keeps her from looking like a pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wise Old Lady | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...Ring of the Löwenskölds (pronounced "Levenskelds") is a trilogy, but its three novels are all self-contained. The first two-The General's Ring and Charlotte Löwensköld-have already been published; the new one, Anna Svärd, finishes the story of Karl Arthur Ekenstedt and Charlotte, the girl he was too proud to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wise Old Lady | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...Africa as a missionary, eventually got Anna to join him there. Like most human arrangements the upshot of these lives was a patched-up compromise; but thanks to Selma Lagerlöf you feel the best has been made of a universally bad bargain. The Ring of the Löwenskölds is the Literary Guild choice for January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wise Old Lady | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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