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Word: temperamental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equipped with thick muscles, the suggestion of a paunch and a brisk, business-like walk, ruddy-faced Jack Crawford bears no resemblance whatever to the tall, somewhat languid youths of whom the U. S. first ten is largely composed. For a long time his game, too, failed to resemble theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennis Climax | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

Fifteen years ago the pale Little Father of All the Russias stood with his family in a cellar at Ekaterinburg while Lettish soldiers shot him down. Those of his followers and courtiers who could, fled the country, moving in two general directions, one through Constantinople toward Paris and the U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: White Flowers | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

Appassionate Tropical Temperament

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1933 | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

"Be just," my dear director "be just"-don't attack only the actual Cuban government and publish all those horrors, that I assure you are augmented, as you have augmented the age of dear Miguel Mariano Gomez, making him a warrior of the '95 war! (Then he must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1933 | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

Sugar Crash. Sugar soured the nature of El Gallo. While Cuba remained prosperous no one objected violently to President Machado's habit of lining his pockets with a little of every money-making concern on the island. His extravagant interest in ladies was excused as Latin temperament, as was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Peten's Passenger | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

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