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Word: roberte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intellectuals" as to their familiarity with the Bible and their thoughtful understanding of the teachings of Jesus. Also to get a list from each of five spiritually constructive books they have read in the last two years, such as Henry C. Link's The Rediscovery of Man, Robert Norwood's Increasing Christhood, etc. Never have there been so many wonderful inspirational books written as recently and religion is sensibly, "gropefully" discussed at every turn. Unfortunately we are still impressed as a nation by education meaning "an accumulation of knowledge of facts" rather than education as "a deepening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...finest piece of primitive art I have ever seen. If any riots start, you know where to find me." No riots followed, but Missouri fairgoers stood in line to gape at Mrs. Lewis' work, stared at the painting that took second prize: a reclining nude by one Robert Graham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Primitive | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...late, great Edward Wyllis Scripps had three sons, James, John and Robert. Eldest Son Jim quarreled with his father and was packed off with a string of small papers, most of them in the northwest, which became the Scripps League. The Scripps League is now run by his two sons, strapping Edward Wyllis Scripps and lanky James G. Jr. The Scripps boys take themselves seriously, used to write a weekly bulletin called PEP for their staffs, have paid such low wages that once when a publisher begged a raise for a $28-a-week business manager, Jim Scripps wrote back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scripps Tease | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...almost all were booked solid through September, their ballrooms, corridors, bars crammed with cots for which passengers eagerly paid cabin fare. In London one badly scared girl offered to buy her own bedding if a ship would sell her space anywhere aboard. Cluett, Peabody & Co.'s President Chesley Robert Palmer & family, who had crossed in a de luxe suite on Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam, on the homeward passage shared three deck mattresses. To get ailing Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, his nurse, valet and physician accommodations, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy had to intervene. Others who squeezed in just under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Going Home | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...DEATH SERVES AN ACE-Helen Wills & Robert Murphy-Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Third Act | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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