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Word: saltingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frederick Robert Higgins, 44, dark, Gaelic-loving Irish poet (Salt Air, Arable Holdings), since 1935 managing director of Dublin's great Abbey Theatre; in Dublin. On a Manhattan visit three years ago, Poet Higgins "found the stage in New York pitiful, contemptible-and what is worse, anemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 20, 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...wife's name was Clorinda MacIntyre. The community was Dixie Mission, which she helped build out of the harsh, savagely colored wilderness 300 miles south of the Great Salt Lake Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mormon Wife | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Invented and manufactured by J. M. Cohen of Potomac Chemical Co., Tectyl does two things: 1) separates salt water from steel, 2) forms an oily, protective coating on the metal. It is electromagnetically attracted to steel and other electrically conducting metals, forms what are called polar films. There are four grades corresponding to film thicknesses ranging from .0002 to .0008 inch. The lightest Tectyl (thinnest film) can be used for cleaning machines of oil and dust, leaves a temporary lubricating and protective layer. The heaviest grade provides longtime protection for metals exposed to weathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tectyl | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Salt Lake City in 1890, snow-bearded Wilford Woodruff, then President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received a revelation from the Lord that the world was not yet ripe for the doctrine of plural marriage. Forthwith he banned it, ordered immediate excommunication of all Mormons who insisted on the full life, including polygamy. That obstacle at last removed, Utah was admitted to Statehood, although Reed Smoot, Mormon Senator, wasn't sure of his seat until after an exhaustive Senate investigation had disclosed that Mormons did not have two horns and a tail, as charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: T^E CONGRESS: Saints in the Senate | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...prig, Brigham Young founded the Salt Lake Theatre (where Maude Adams first appeared on stage, age 9 months) as one of his first creations; organized the still flourishing Young Men's & Women's Mutual Improvement Associations, whose sessions ended in dances, which were (and are) always opened with prayer. Pioneer Young wanted young Mormons to have their fun in church, not taverns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: T^E CONGRESS: Saints in the Senate | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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