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Word: romanticizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Be that as it may, the event was legitimately historic. More than any other man, Motorman Ford personifies to millions the triumph of the rugged virtues of the American Way. He had consistently and successfully resisted NRA. He is currently doing battle with the National Labor Relations Board and C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Like a Dream | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Lying low while Huxley fought evolution's battles, ridden by an anxiety neurosis until he became famous, he spent his old age reading romantic novels, died quietly at 73, concerned for the future of his investments, never realized how completely he had revolutionized the whole field of human thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Timid Giant | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Not so romantic as its title, neither is this travel book so ponderous as the official title of the one-man expedition it tells about-the Carnegie Institution's Expedition for Study of the Earth's Magnetic Behavior. A mixture of guidebook, adventure story, anthropological study, social & political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magnetic Traveler | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

The population of Paraguay in 1862, when Francisco Solano Lopez became dictator, was more than a million. When he was killed eight years later, after six years of war with Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, the male population added up to about 29,000. On the strength of this record Lopez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Historic Slaughter | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Umpteenth in the current series of romantic-slapstick comedies, "Joy of Living," with Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is somewhat disappointing mainly because its cast arouses expectations of something better. This does not mean that it is not thoroughly amusing and considerably above the usual comedy run. However, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

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