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Word: skilfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scion of a family that has always managed to find more than one way to skin a political cat, Wisconsin's Progressive young Governor Philip Fox La Follette last year tried a new way of getting after his State's privately owned utility companies. Since Wisconsin's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: WDA Out | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

The National Broadcasting Co. prides itself on never letting the Columbia Broadcasting System get ahead of it. In the opinion of many a serious student of U. S. drama, ahead is just where CBS got last April when its skilful experimental Workshop of the Air produced Poet Archibald MacLeish'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Benet from the Blue | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Professor Friedrich Schonemann of the University of Berlin, onetime instructor at Harvard, tried to quiet the Nazi howling. He declared: "I think it is rather foolish and at the same time dangerous on the part of a certain section of the German press to indulge in wholesale criticism of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Holy War | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Broken by the first separation in their 50 years of marriage, Barkley and Lucy make bad visitors. Lucy interferes with her daughter-in-law's bridge parties. Barkley gets in wrong with Cora. When the children decide, as an alternative arrangement, to send their father to a daughter who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

"The selection of [starred] names," wrote Dr. Schrader, "is made on a basis that is not very clear to me, and I doubt that it is well defined in the mind of the editor himself. ... I regard these elections ... as a somewhat childish albeit amusing pastime, but I understand that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stars Flayed | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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