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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plump Mrs. Anthony Geraci, goodwife of The Bronx, N. Y., limped to St. Lucy's Roman Catholic Church one evening last week, leaning on a cane. Her dragging left foot was supported in a steel brace. After services in the church, Mrs. Geraci and some 500 other worshippers followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Miracle in The Bronx | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Gilbert Wright, now a writer, used to be a cowpuncher, a lifeguard, a utility technician, a tutor. Born 38 years ago in Kansas, he graduated (1925) from the University of California, where he studied physics and mathematics. He taught math at a military academy for a year, took to writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sonovox | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

When A. F. A.'s Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead read in trade papers last winter that his union was incompetently and bossily run, he demanded that Four A's either give him a lollipop or a licking. Four A's, handing out no lollipops, investigated, last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Sophie Spanked | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

At one end of the directors' table in the big board room of Jersey City's First National Bank one day last week sat handsome, strapping Oscar Cintas, a long Cuban cigarette between his slim fingers, a sleekly rolled umbrella between his well-tailored knees. Across the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Charlie's Oscar | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Shangri-La. No orchid hunter is Ronald Kaulback, though he once picked flowers in Tibet with famed Botanist Kingdon Ward, collected many rare plants, insects, snakes on his own 18-month scramble to find the source of Tibet's Black River, the Salween. He never found it, but he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travelogue | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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