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Word: summer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ministry decided to purchase from the U. S. 250 fighting planes, in addition to the 400 ordered last summer. Cost of the 650: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Deeds, Not Words | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Frank Black will conduct the Cities Service hour 52 Friday nights. He will also continue to be NBC's musical director, conduct the RCA Magic Key concerts Sunday afternoons, run his NBC string symphony this summer, oversee NBC's vast music library, dash off arrangement - popular or high-brow - which are the envy of the profession. For all this he will collect some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Old Timer | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week Oswego High School was placid as a summer day. Principal Salter had promptly suspended nine rowdy ringleaders. One of them was Andrew ("Bud") Pierce, son of the town's mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rowdies Routed | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...years ago became a member of New York City's Board of Education. Mr. Buck was appalled to learn that the city's 400,000 junior and senior high-school pupils were taught virtually nothing about sex. He decided that something should be done about it. Last summer he saw his chance. From the Board of Superintendents came a new course of science study for junior high schools, proposing to teach pupils about reproduction among birds and flowers but not among animals. Mr. Buck & colleagues promptly sent it back, asking "Why?" Back came the superintendents' reasons, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Innocent Childhood | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...conservative Association of American Railroads knows that thousands of U. S. citizens from inland towns and villages will visit the San Francisco and New York World's Fairs this spring and summer, is fully aware of the passenger competition it will get from the cheaper bus lines, the convenient private automobiles, the more expensive airlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Fair Fare | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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