Search Details

Word: schifferes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Gertrude A. Canniff of Peekskill, N. Y. sued Mrs. Samuel Schiffer of Elberon, N. J. for $1,950, charging that last fall at Peekskill's horse show a prize stallion belonging to Mrs. Schiffer had reached out of his stall, bitten her hand, swallowed her wristwatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mouthful | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Last year Britain's potent Theorist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac suggested that the gravitational constant and certain others were dependent on t, the age of the universe, and were therefore slowly altering as the universe gets older. Last month in the Physical Review Mathematicians Samuel Sambursky and Max Schiffer of the Hebrew University in Palestine presented a detailed mathematical treatment of the idea that the universe is not expanding but appears to do so because the atomic measuring rods by which it is observed are shrinking-an illusion like that of Alice in Wonderland who, after nibbling a magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Constant Uproar | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Also high scoring for the local team was Gay Dillingham with six goals during the whole game. Schiffer led the Elis to slip in five points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Team Rides Down Elis After Tough Uphill Battle | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Joker. Not tragicomic, but like a pathetic and futile story by Morley Callaghan. was last week's tale of Alice Kenny Schiffer Diamond. She married Jack ("Legs") Diamond (a consumptive gunman who was destined to be gangland's clay pigeon before he died), in 1917 after he had deserted the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: In New York | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...think what would happen to my social standing. . . . But the best philosophy I ever heard can be expressed in three words - 'don't kid yourself.' That realization helped me to cure my Depression." Because clergymen objected, a playlet called "Does Crime Pay?", starring plump Mrs. Alice Schiffer Diamond, widow of Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, was dropped from the bill of Billy Watson's burlesque show when it reached Paterson, N. J. Protested Actress Diamond : "My theatrical act teaches a great moral lesson - everyone, young and old, who sees it realizes that crime is futile and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next