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Word: self (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing you a line in regards to, Silo, Coughlin. Now just remember I will never buy this magazine again, and I will put my self out of the way, to ask my store keeper never to handle it. I am writing a few letters two your advertisers and ask thim in the name of Christianity two Boycott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...What Rome is to the Catholic priesthood, Paris has been for centuries to the artists of Europe. Among the hundreds of hopefuls who arrived there m 1900 at the dewy dawn of a destructive century, 19-year-old Pablo Picasso was remarkable for his impressionability, his facility his profound self-confidence. Standing one day in admiration before a painting by Toulouse-Lautrec, whose bold draftsmanship and garish atmosphere he was then busily imitating, he was heard to murmur, "All the same, I paint better than he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art's Acrobat | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Last year a self-constituted Committee for Electoral Reform, backed by 127 signatures from the class of 1938, presented a number of demands to the Student Council. The Committee's platform stated that the later announcement of nominees by petition made them appear to be "self-seekers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elections System Reformed by Council, Ending Petition Delay | 2/10/1939 | See Source »

...critics thought some of Mr. Mednikoff's work, such as Little Nigger Boys Don't Tell Lies (see cut), beautifully painted. But neurologists and psychiatrists were considerably more dubious of the value of self-administered surrealistic psychotherapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Surrealistic Science? | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Died. Robert Hallowell, 52, self-taught U. S. artist who, with Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly, was one of the founders of the New Republic in 1914; of a heart attack; on Staten Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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