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Word: sameness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. undergraduates (some 1,250,000 of them), always new, always the same, arrived on their traditional campuses to> start the fall term in the traditional way. As usual, they chattered of football prospects, fraternities, girls, played impromptu games of touch football.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unique Burden | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Artist Brockhurst's portraits have the bloom and precise brushwork of the Umbrian school of Italian painters. The figures are serene, meticulously painted against quiet-colored Tuscan landscapes of rolling hills, flowing water, umbrella pines. But posterity is in no danger of mistaking the nationality of his subjects. Brock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Portraitist | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Nor was any money going into World War I's favorite commodities. Earlier in the month knowing speculators in copper had been stung by the price being pegged at 12? a Ib. (1918 high 26?). Europe was showing no signs of needing U. S. copper. Another World War II...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Month at the Races | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

More than just roommates will be Gavin & Denney. From Chicago (by means of joint ownership of the rich Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) to the Pacific Coast their tracks run parallel (G. N. to the north). Bewhiskered, one-eyed, oathy James J. ("Jim") Hill tried to combine them in his G. N...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: 1037 & 1030 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

The "binaural principle" of acoustical direction-finding is basically the same as that which enables a human being (with good hearing in both ears) to tell approximately whence a sound comes. The compression peaks of a sound wave coming in at an angle reach the near ear a tiny fraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ears Under Water | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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