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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Room of the White House, the President received delegates to a National Parole Conference, told them that, with 60-70,000 prisoners coming out of jails and reformatories every year, their handling by the different States is of vital concern to the country. Said he: "We know from experience that parole, when it is honestly and expertly managed, provides better protection for society than does any other method of release from prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hush Week | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...majesty which for three years she has worn in Victoria Regina, she threw herself into the role of plain "Mrs. Charles MacArthur," mother of two."* She recalled her grandmother's stories about eight brothers & sisters around the family dinner table. "I remember that there was always room for one more. There is always room for one more†ones who have no room elsewhere." Mother MacArthur clinched her argument by saying she would gladly adopt a child sight unseen,† if assured it was not mentally defective. Said she poignantly: "I never saw my own child until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Little Refugees | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...incredibly thoroughbred characters lived so vividly in the old Life that in 1920 Gibson was able to buy the magazine for $1,000,000. President of the Society of Illustrators from 1904-05 and from 1909-20, Gibson was honored at last week's exhibition by a retrospective room full of Gibson Girls. Now 71 and long retired, high-collared, big-chinned "Dana" Gibson paints all day in a 59th Street studio but not a soul is permitted to see his work. Held in great disdain by the Pyle school as "hothouse" draftsmen, Gibson's followers James Montgomery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Illustrators | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Arguing against the abolition of tutoring schools, the Leverett House debating team eked out a favorable decision, downing the Dunster debaters last night in the Leverett House Senior Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funsters Drop Decision to Bunnies in Tutoring Debate | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

When Bunny debates Funster in the Leverett Senior Common Room at 7:45 o'clock tonight, the question before the house will be: "Resolved, That interring schools be abolished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIMINATION OF TUTORING SCHOOLS DEBATED TONIGHT | 4/27/1939 | See Source »

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