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Word: self (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rand, in charge of the French Films, also announced that contributors may obtain tickets by sending self-addressed and stamped envelopes to her, 107 Lake Avenue, Cambridge, specifying the performance for which tickets are required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Films Committee Will Show Moliere Picture This Week | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Broad-shouldered Oliver Carmichael was self-educated in the schoolroom and library built by his father, an Alabama farmer, for the family's seven boys and three girls.* At 15 he was ready to go to the University of Alabama. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, interrupted his studies to work for Herbert Hoover's relief commission in Belgium, to go to India, take a fling in General Smuts's East African Army. He was twice mistakenly arrested as a spy. When he arrived in Alabama to enlist in the U. S. Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Southern Inventory | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...love is lost between other Philadelphia art authorities and Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, inventor of Argyrol, collector and self-appointed gadfly to museums. Last November Dr. Barnes broke a short truce with a bitter horselaugh at Millionaire Joseph Widener for buying, and at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art for accepting, a large, sparse Cézanne which he called inferior (TIME, Nov. 29). Lately the wealthy doctor has formed a queer alliance with the Philadelphia Artists' Union to discomfit attractive Mary Curran, State director of the Federal Art Project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Philadelphia | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...North Pole there is no land, so anv expedition there must camp on ice. Last May the Russians, self-elected mon-nrchs of the Arctic, landed planes at the Xorth Pole, established a camp to conduct scientific investigation and communicate hv radio with airplanes making transpolar flights to the U. S. The scientists discovered that the air around the Pole was not constantly at high barometric pressure, but, on the contrary, at constantly low pressure. Another surprise was a swarm of crabs, jellyfish and red crayfish, brought up in a net from a depth of 3,000 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Four Men & a Dog | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell's unselfconscious heroes was Mr. Holton, self-taught authority on mass insanity, who went crazy. Mr. Holton's wife picked up every crazy fad that came along. One night she woke him up and said "Knock, knock." "I am too old for that sort of by-play," Mr. Holton complained to Mitchell. "I do not wear long pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Lardner's Line | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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