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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What this formless interlude in French upper-middle-class family life has got is a characteristic, plush-lined Gilbert Miller production and a fine cast of actors. Chief among them is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, never before seen on a U. S. stage. An exponent of the feather-touch, as the timid, pale grey little Parisian father, his gentle intonations and delicate gestures seem to indicate that he is afraid that grosser activity might jar him loose from the stage and send him floating up in the flies. In direct contrast to Sir Cedric's placidity is Irene Browne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...particle or light rav from outside can be expressed, very roughly speaking, as though they were water rippled by a falling stone. Furthermore, the expression can be formulated in Relativistic terms. Whether atoms with more than one electron can be crammed into the same mold remains to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Holiday | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...Jean, who had no love for the canting Covenanters and was much drawn to Clavers' dark good looks, saw him superintending a bloody flogging. That night, when they met at a ball, she publicly insulted him. 'But it was all a terrible mistake. The man she had seen flogged was one of Clavers' own brutal troopers who had been caught torturing Jean's old nurse. In a few hours Jean learned the rights of it, apologized to Clavers as publicly as she had insulted him. By page 120 there seems no further reason to worry about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killiecrankie | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

When Harvard faces McGill they will probably play better hockey than at any other time throughout the season; but whether this will be enough to stop a team which has routed Yale and Princeton remains to be seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...admit there is a case of influenza here. Every case I have seen has been a neglected cold which is not the textbook idea of influenza. Goodness knows, we have had an explosion of some sort here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STILLMAN TAXED TO CAPACITY BY ATTACK OF COLDS | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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