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Word: solemnest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Impressions, Satires & Improvisations (Gramophone Shop, Inc., 18 East 48th Street, Manhattan: 8 sides). Blind musical Satirist Templeton's one-man caricatures of Wagnerian Opera, Lieder singing, etc., have long been featured entertainment at Rockefeller Center's swanky Rainbow-Room. Their recorded versions are guaranteed to split the solemnest concertgoer's sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: January Records: SYMPHONIC, ETC. | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Solemnest of man's buildings, the mausoleum gets its name from the great tomb of King Mausolus at Halicarnassus (c. 353 B.C.). The favorite mausoleum of a generation ago resembled a Greek shrine; today's favorite more appropriately resembles a Frigidaire. But last week near Wilmington, Del., a family noted for its independence was about ready to move the remains of the late Alfred Irénée du Pont into a tomb of quite original design and princely size. One of the largest concrete and granite towers in the world, 210 feet high, with an eventual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tower at Nemours | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Last week some 750,000 U. S. students held their fifth annual rally against war, argued over collective security v. isolation. Solemnest ceremony: At Northwestern University the editors of the Daily Northwestern planted in the campus meadow a weeping willow, to be cut down when the first of their number is killed in a future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Peace Day | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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