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Word: temperedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just how sturdy a foundation the Constitution's framers intended to lay for the Federal Government is a question which has been puzzling Supreme Court Justices for 146 years. Air-tight was the wall of secrecy with which the Constitutional Convention delegates surrounded their deliberations. In Philadelphia one summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Light from Lansing | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

Lotta Van Buren's capable players include a medieval-looking brother and sister, but otherwise the group lacks the main characteristic of old instrumentalists -family solidarity. Bearded, bad-tempered, 77-year-old Arnold Dolmetsch of England, a famed researcher and maker of fine instruments, plays, somewhat badly, in ensemble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Deep River Antiques | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

Two weeks ago, Dr. Willard said, he took an ill-tempered, 20-lb. rhesus monkey named Jekal, asphyxiated it with ether, injected sodium citrate into its veins to prevent its blood from coagulating. When the animal's breathing and circulation had stopped, a chiropractor pronounced it "dead." Then Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jekal & Mr. Simkhovitch | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

This sweeping debarment of Germans was purely hypothetical last week but nonetheless real. It sprang from a ruling by the hot-tempered little Mayor that, because the Nazi State, in his opinion, discriminates against certain U. S. citizens, mostly Jews, in Germany, therefore New York's municipal government will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'Occult Forces | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

FELICIANA - Stark Young - Scribner ($2.50). For cool summer fiction, few readers turn to the snarling, high-pressure, melodramatic novels of the new South. But the South that Stark Young has described in River House, So Red the Rose and other volumes is one of the coolest and sweetest tempered areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Air Conditioned South | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

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