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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rooms carefully designated as Their Majesties' Dining Room, H. M. The King's Study, Their Majesties' Morning Room, The Royal Nursery, etc., curious Londoners gaped at such curios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal and Historic | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Glenview, Ill., last week a golf pro named Cyril Wagner, pooh-poohing the failure of a Michigan City colleague to make a hole-in-one after 17 hours of trying the week before, made a locker-room bet ($325 against a brand new automobile) that he could not only make one hole-in-one but two of them within 24 hours. Accompanied by three suitcases of balls, six caddies and two scorekeepers, he took his stance on the 17th tee of the Elmgate Country Club at 8:15 in the evening, began to wham away - at the rate of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Just Luck | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Comparatively unsung across the Hudson, the Newark Museum last week completed its array of summer attractions. Reconstructed in its big, walled garden and restored to the last detail was a one room building of local sandstone, dated 1784-the oldest schoolhouse still standing in Newark. In the airy Museum itself were: 1) a full-scale reconstruction of a Tibetan lamasery altar; 2) fine lace and silverware; 3) "The Human Body & Its Care," an exhibit featuring a skeleton; 4) American "primitive'' paintings; 5) 200 electrically driven, slow-motion models showing all the physical principles used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Newark & Dana | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

First indication of the change came soon after the Wall Street Crash, when Pub lisher Patterson walked into the city room and announced: "We're off on the wrong foot. The people's major interest is in how they're going to eat." On March 6, 1933 the News announced: "This newspaper now pledges itself to support the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a period of at least one year." Not only did the News support the New Deal, but it devoted itself wholeheartedly to selling it to the people. Joe Patterson became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 1,848,320 of Them | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Just 16 men are to appear, top-flight biologists and physicists all, at a symposium. In one room they will sit as on a sort of scientific Olympus, and each will make a formal statement of the most interesting truths he knows about biological cells and protoplasm. Then they will swap ideas and comments and, inevitably, some of them will, in the most abstruse scientific terms, call some others liars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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