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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Come" has passed out of the first run stage, but it is a sufficiently interesting film to justify a short excursion into the provinces. It is to be found in town at the Uptown Theatre, along with Bette Davis in "The Golden Arrow," which is old Michael Arlen stuff and not worthy of Miss Davis' manifold charms and talents...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/17/1936 | See Source »

This small miracle was made possible, the engineers were soon told, because the "windshield" through which they looked was made of a recently developed material called Polaroid, and the headlight lenses were backed by plates of the same stuff. Polaroid polarizes light. Reduced to simplest terms, polarization is a process of "combing out" a beam of light so that it vibrates in one plane only. Laymen understand polarization more readily if they imagine that a beam of light, vibrating in all directions, is a flight of straws blown along helter-skelter by the wind. If the straws collide with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polaroid | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Another reporter on the job at the Gordonsville tragedy was United Pressman Levings Somers Willis. Of the sordid stuff he saw, says he: "I have in my desk a charred piece of jawbone of the man which was handed my wife by one of the crowd at the scene. I will gladly mail this to TIME. I personally saw both bodies raked from the ashes of the house, and saw pieces of skull and jawbone broken from the body of the man. Boys used the body of the woman as a football in the early morning hours. Slicing flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...check up on his mind, Mr. Dunne took to writing down as much as he could recall of his dreams as soon as he woke up. With practice at this he found he was able to recall more & more of his dream-stuff. He persuaded friends to try it. A few of them declared that they never had any dreams. But when they tried jotting down what they could remember while still in the half-doze of waking, they were often able to recall a good deal, were usually amazed hours later at what they had scribbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dreams Come True? | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...clue to Murry in his own remarks on Rousseau's Confessions: "JeanJacques can hardly be called detestable, yet he is certainly not likeable. And it is hard to say why. . " . There is something in it which is at bottom revolting. He is totally without some hard aristocratic stuff which is necessary to the ideal composition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Introspect | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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