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Word: romanticizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Modern Pentathlon, run off on five successive days, was invented by the romantic Swedes, has invariably been won by one. The Swede who won last week, Count Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, did it without placing first in any of the five events. He was fourth in the riding (on unfamiliar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Xth Olympiad | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

Wolfgang von Gronau, 39, is much less a "flyer," in the romantic sense of the word, than an aerial mariner, stolid, painstaking, plodding. He did not want to become a pilot. His lack of interest in aviation became definite fear when his brother, a War aviator, was shot down and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Again, von Gronau | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Once the picture of men ringing the Pole like wolves around a campfire excited romantic scientists. But as the Second Polar Year loomed, economy's pinch made many a nation withdraw its cooperation. Niggling legislatures reduced expense accounts. When at last the Polar Year got under way it had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Year | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

A Romantic Young Man?Achmed Abdullah?Farrar & Rinehart.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Omnibus of Crime | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

In Berlin the spirit of Germany's younger generation gave Author Hergesheimer pause. From their severe, rather poverty-stricken lives "the customary optimism, the romantic confidence, of youth, were absent. . . ." Most characteristic humor of the town was "a faintly bitter but undisturbed acceptance, of all, all, the realities of existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Wine in Old Tanks | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

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