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Word: stoops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued to gain about three inches every year. At one time his mother, by standing tiptoe, could touch his shoulder, and his older sister could walk hand-in-hand with him without making him stoop. But no longer. Only comfortable way for him to motor is astride the car or in a truck. His suits require nine yards of cloth. Shoes, haberdashery and suits all must be specially made for him. His shoe size is 36 and shoemakers make much of him at their Chicago conventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alton Giant | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

With a satisfied glint behind his thick- lensed spectacles, stoop-shouldered Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras left Geneva last week where he had been representing his country at the League Council's 96th session (TIME, Feb. 1). That suave diplomat, onetime obstetrician, had now delivered for Turkey a League settlement of the Turkish-French dispute over the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta which Dictator Mustafa Kamal Ataturk had demanded that France hand to him from her Syrian mandate (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Triumph & Triumph | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...Guest Conductor Igor Stravinsky too bloodless and ascetic (TIME, Jan. 25) last week found his successor, Georges Enesco, more to their taste. They clapped warmly when the burly, bigheaded Rumanian walked awkwardly onto the stage of Carnegie Hall to lead the Philharmonic for the first time in his life. Stoop-shouldered and serious, Georges Enesco showed in his conducting neither the agility of Barbirolli nor the machine regularity of Stravinsky. But nobody could doubt Enesco's knowledge of the orchestra, his anxious and humble devotion to the scores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No. 1 Rumanian | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...disgusted subscriber can say is, ''For Shame, TIME." May 1937 have a personality so outstanding that TIME will not again have to stoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...Empire, a description in words of one and two syllables of the relations between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. Only a few days prior these had been so "scandalous" (because undignified) that they were supposed to be something which only a few nasty-minded British adults would stoop to read in the "American press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prince Edward | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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