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Word: temperedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlie Chan in Egypt (Fox) exhibits the hero of Hollywood's most durable saga investigating a murder case in Luxor where an archeologist has been shot, battered and mummified. When Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) arrives on the scene, he promptly outlines his methods with a proverb: "Insignificant molehill sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 1, 1935 | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

Dolores Del Rio is definitely a beautiful lady. Pat O'Brien is said to have good points. Edward Everett Horton can be quite amusing. Busby Berkeley has been known to create clever choral monstrosities. With the above ingredients, tempered by a dash of Glenda Farrell, we have "Caliente" which aims...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: AT THE MET | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

Richard Hieck was a mathematics student at a German university. Poor, ungainly, shyly incoherent, he was a good mathematician and ambitious to be a great one. So intent was he on the higher nature of his beloved science that it seemed right to him to be contemptuous of the easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mathematician | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

The strike, first such action by the Guild against a newspaper in a large city, was noisy and bad-tempered on both sides. Hot-headed Publisher Lucius T. Russell was loud in his derision of "Heywood Broun's children of the Guild." The Guild retaliated with a program of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Substantial Victory | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

Ignoring those sections of the bill which, if enacted, will put 91% of the country's operating companies under the domination of the Federal Power Commission, the President made out a well-tempered case against the holding companies. "Except where it is absolutely necessary to the continued functioning of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Propaganda v. Propaganda | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

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