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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the loss of 124 lives, closest approach to a hero to emerge from the muckraking Department of Commerce investigation that followed was the ship's chief radio operator, pudgy George White ("Sparks") Rogers. Having stuck to his key until he was hauled out of the radio room half-suffocated, Sparks Rogers was decorated for his heroism by the Veteran Wireless Operators Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Pretty Swell | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Other points from Eyewitness Mowrer: "Three officers in plain khaki uniforms, devoid of any insignia whatever, came into the room and talked in Russian and made pencil marks on the map stretched over the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Day After Day | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...inimitably shaped Garden Clubbers who descended on Manhattan's annual Flower Show. One of the few New Yorker satirists whose style has resisted fashion for a decade, Hokinson's workshop is her bedroom, in a neat little apartment on Manhattan's Beekman Place. On her living-room wall are two glossy, old-fashioned American landscapes which she picked up in Connecticut last summer for $7. She calls them her van Goghs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dressing Down | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Education free from political control, giving a chance for free initative on the part of the students, has been tried for 20 years in Germany, thought of as a nation without intellectual liberty, Herman von Baravalle said in a talk on "Freedom in Education" in the Leverett House Common Room last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Liberal Education in Germany Now, Talk Reveals | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

...Revolt" carries on Pi Eta Theatricals' tradition of musical comedy. The story, dealing inevitably with a mythical land, a dictatorship, and the bumpy road to love, is unimportant, although its complications require so much exposition that little room is left for irrelevant wit. Fortunately the play's barbed remarks are confined to local institutions...

Author: By C. J., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

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