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Word: sameness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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For the large class affair a case can be drawn up. At present, neither the extreme jitterbug nor the small-dance advocate is pleased by the attempt to compromise on a "three-quarters good" orchestra. Were a single Junior prom, similar to the Jubilee, to be held, the ever-recurring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE GUSTIBUS . . . | 3/28/1939 | See Source »

What keeps the average sedentary young executive from toning up at court tennis is mainly that there are only twelve courts in the U. S., and a proper court costs some $100,000, must be plastered with a secret British cement apocryphally said to be made from silt from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Squash tennis and squash racquets are played on the same size court, are pretty much the same game, a foreshortened variety of racquets with not so much breakage. Courts can be built for as low as $3,000. Squash racquets is played with a shorter, sturdier variety of racquets bat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Joseph Buchhalter, who was also cited last week, is a onetime Denver commodity trader and real estate dealer who devised a scheme for profiting from Henry Wallace's "ever-normal granary" program. Ihe Buchhalter plan entailed simultaneously going short and long on wheat contracts (buying and selling at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Tag-line | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

A musical novel called Maurice Guest opened (pianissimo) Henry Handel Richardson's career in 1908. Richardson's next book, The Getting of Wisdom (1910), struck a chord that made listeners sit up: how did this man get to know so many intimacies of life in an Australian girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Richardson's Richard | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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