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Word: seeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Raymond Daniell and John MacCormac, the A. P.'s Frank H. King and U. P.'s Webb Miller appeared on the dock in morning coats and striped trousers. By the time the King and Queen reached Ottawa, even the photographers were wearing cutaways and high hats (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Royal Press | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Royce from a well-known producer down on his luck, painted TOWNE-BAKER SCRIPT DELIVERY CAR on its sides, hired an indigent dentist to drive it to the studios for which they cracked out an unrivaled list of successes. Towne & Baker like to work in hats and no shirts (see cut), Towne building up ideas and Baker tearing them down. Their mutual devotion is celebrated in a popular Hollywood story that when Baker was dying of pneumonia last year, Towne climbed into his oxygen tent and revived his partner by threatening to deprive him of screen credit on a forthcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Play's The Thing | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...past five years among more ordinary summer vacationists. Last week, reverently as turn-of-the-century maidens perennially inspecting their hope chests, thousands of winter-weary U. S. men & women took out their dusty fishing kits, added a few newfangled gadgets, collected roadmaps for their annual summer fishing trip (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seaboarders | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Nicaragua's chunky President Anastasio Somoza, in the U. S. on a canal-selling and sightseeing trip, found a certain drawback to visiting-in-state. Said he: "They do things differently here. . . . In the White House, when I wanted to see my wife, I had to leave my room, go down a long corridor, and into another room to find her. Now in my own country, I don't have to do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Today at 49 Floyd Reeves is wiry, quick, dynamic. Facing his new job-to help draft a plan for helping Youth and see that it is carried out-he complained last week that Youth's opportunities were narrower than when he was a boy, suggested that Youth be allowed to vote at 18 in order to reduce the electoral odds now favoring oldsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Votes for 18? | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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