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Word: silents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Both of us finished our second drafts today. "I'll be very disappointed if I get a '-' on the end of this "A." I told Harold, "I've given up the Vineyard, New York, and the family for Professor Bell and Herodotus." Harold nodded, but said nothing. He was silent all the way to class. For one hour he listened attentively to the professor's voice. Then he leaned over and whispered; "Say, Appleworth, let's see if we can take History 1 the second half-year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/2/1938 | See Source »

...aimed at more sophisticated members of the middle generation, gives several hints on what a wife can do when her husband bawls her out before friends. She can ask him to tell his best story. If that does not work, she can answer back. Or she can become completely silent, or-"this is a blow between the eyes"-she can leave the room. Marjorie Kern's Getting Along Together is directed toward people who are growing old. She preaches the advantages of calm companionship over passionate misery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...duties in St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Memphis, Tenn. and in his home in the shadow of the white stone Gothic fane. People in his Bible class, at wedding and funeral services he conducted, at Holy Communion in the Cathedral, eyed Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe with silent, respectful curiosity. They had read in Memphis newspapers that this dean of the Cathedral, once a florid and jovial churchman, had for a year taken no nourishment but orange juice. For a fortnight, to prove that "the soul is above the need of material life," he had, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Noe's Woes | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...good friend of Jewess Lupescu; although a Fascist, a bitter enemy of Iron Guardsman Codreanu. In jig time last week he whipped a Cabinet together which contained three members of the National Peasant Party. These were promptly denounced as turncoats and Judases by Peasant Leader Maniu but remained silent on their dignity. Quickly Octavian Goga hustled the whole Cabinet to the palace to take the oath of office before their King. Said King Carol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: God, King, and Nation | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...deep and troubled rumblings as if a mighty ocean rolled far under." Thirty-eight miles from Pocatello a three-mile side road leads to Emigrant Rock, where travelers wrote their names in axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another side road branches off to the Silent City of Rocks, 25 sq. mi. of massive granite fragments shaped like cathedrals, towers, skyscrapers, toadstools. Eighty-two miles from Pocatello is the largest potato-flour mill in the world. At Twin Falls, 42 miles farther, Shoshone Falls drops 212 ft. From the walls of Snake River Canyon, 32 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mirror to America | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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